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INDEX. 



I. - Mr. Desert Island. 

II. Situation and Connection. 

III. - - - - , IIistoky of the Island— Ancient. 

IV. TOPOGRAl'HV OP THE ISLAND. 

V. ------- Scenery of the Island. 

VI. - - - -'*- - - Glacial Phenomena. 

VII. Kesources of the Island. 

VIII. - - _ _ Modern History AND Rejiiniscences. 

IX. -.------- Town of Mt. Desert 

X. Town of Eden. 

wXI. -------- Town OF Tremont. 

XII. ------ Town of Cranberry Isle. 

XIII. --------- Gott's Island. 

XIV. -------- General Eemarks. 

XV. Business Directory. 

XVI. -------- Advertisements. 



Mt. Desert Island and the Cranberry Isles. 



MT. DESERT ISLA^^D. 

A niillennium aj^o only the underpinning of Mt. Desert was formed, 
and this, to uphold the stagnant current, or divide the sweeping 
glaciers. 

"Wonderful it is, that out of the bald, barren rock, life should 
spring ; that over its surface a generous soil should spread, bearing its 
wealth of flowers, and fruits, and grains; giving 'seed to the sower, 
and bread to the eater.' " 

Passing from a sunken ledge to an island field of plenty — from 
bleakness to beautj^ — from death to life is marvelous, yet Ave trace the 
steady transition. 

The work of Dr. Seely explains the change :— Under atmospheric 
influences a trifle of the surface rock crumbled and dissolved. The 
lichen, the humble but efficient pioneer of vegetation and of life, fixed 
itself upon the decajdng rock and found a home. The first was but a 
signal of a troop, and they came till the rock was grey with their 
patchwork. Dying, they mingled their decaying mass with the disin- 
tegrating rock. On the thin film -of soil thus prepared another low, 
yet higher form of vegetation, the moss, appeared, and the grim rock 
grew grey with verdant life. Under the shade of this humid covering, 
the degradation of the rock hastened, and with the crumbled mass a 
greater mass of dying vegetation blended. The grass came next, and 
carpeted the whole with green ; lived and died, and dying yielded its 
contribution to the soil. Then the low shrub found a foothold, and 
embossed work made the carpet more beautiful. Low trees soon min- 
gled with the shrubs, and finally larger ones, the glory of the moun- 
tain, made the former waste a dwelling-place of beauty. The soil 
that bore all these is now rich,— rich, because death and air have made 
it the garden of life. Down to the deepest depth of the mold, down to 



6 MX. DESERT ISLAND AND THE CRANHERKY ISLES. 

the granite rock, the soil was made rich by the iiiiug'litig of tliat which 
was once verdant with life. Lichen, and moss, and shrub, and tree, 
have given their bodies that the -race following might be more luxuri- 
ous by their life and death. As over the buried cities of Herculaneum, 
Pompeii and Strabea, new life ebbs and flows, so over the dead vege- 
tation the lields grow green and golden in turn — so the wall of coral 
rock converted itself hito the '-Island of Mt. Desert." 



SITUATION AND CONNECTION OF THE ISLAND. 

Mt. Desert Island is situated on the eastern coast of Maine, in Lat. 
44deg. 15 min. North, and Long. 68 deg. 20 sec. from Greenwich, West, 
and from Washington, 8 deg. 40 min. East. It is about 150 miles from 
Portland by Coast Pilot, and nearly 100 miles by the same reckoning 
from the mouth of the St. Croix River, or what is called the "Lines." 
It is connected to the mainland b}^ a toll bridge over the Narrows of 
Jordan's River. The mail communications are by stage, three times 
per week, and by steamboat two. A telegraph line is established and 
in operation from South West Harbor via Somesville to Ellsworth, and 
one connecting Bar Harbor and Somesville. 

Travelers' Guide, 1871. The stages are conducted by the proprietors, 
Messrs. John and Eben Harden of Trenton, gentlemen in every sense 
of the word, polite and agreeable to passengers and accommodating 
to patx-ons. Their time table is as follows :— Leave Ellsworth every 
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock, A. M., arriving at the 
termini at 2 o'clock, P. M. Returning — leave South West Harbor at G 
o'clock, A. M., arriving at Ellsworth at 12 M. By the mail arrange- 
ments which began the 1st of July, 1871, there is a divide at the Mt. 
Desert Post Office; the main stage goes direct to South West Harbor, 
and the branch stage round the western side of the town with the Seal 
Cove and (Bass Harbor) Tremont mails. The Bar Harbor or East 
Eden Post Office stage branches oiF at the Narrows and goes down the 
Eden road. There is a daily mail stage from Ellsworth to East Eden 
Post Office, Bar Harbor, in the summer, Irom July 1st to October 1st. 

The "Telegraph Line" between Ellsworth and Tremont (office at 
the Island House, S. W. Harbor) was completed in July, 1870, through 
tlie vigorous effort of Henry Clark, Esq., President of the Ellsworth 



SITUATION AXD COXKECTION OK THE ISLAND. 7 

and Trenioiit Telegraph Coitipany. The following' is the first dispatch 
sent over the Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert line. 

"Eden, May 19, 1871. 
From the llayor of Eden to the Mayor of Bangor: 

Eden sends a telegraphic g-reeting to Bangor. Our line will be com- 
pleted by Eve; but owing to the roclcy soil,"not without A — dam." 

Tlie operators are. South West Harbor. Miss Abbie May Holden; 
Somesville, Mr. Roscoe G. Salsbuiy; Bar Harbor, Miss Reynolds. 

The Steamer Lewiston, Capt. Deering, leaves Railroad Wharf, Port- 
land, for Machiasport, every Tuesday and Friday evenings, at 10 
o'clock, or on arrival of the G o'clock P. M. Steamboat Express train 
from Boston, touching at Rockland, Castine, Deer Isle, Sedgwick, Mt. 
Desert, Milbridge and Jonesport. Returning, leaves Machiasport 
rvery Monday and Thursday morning at 5 o'clock, touching at the 
atbre named places, arriving in Portland in ample time for passengers 
to take the early morning train for Boston. Tlirougti tickets for sale 
bv the early trains at the ofllces of the Boston and Maine, and Eastern 
Railroads. 

The Lewiston touches at Bar Harbor (Mt. Desert) each trip from the 
30th of June to the 15th of September, in addition to her landings at 
South West Harbor. 

T I 31: E T A I? T^ E . 



Going East Leaves 

Boston at 6:00 P.M. 

rortland 10 :00 

Rockland, 5 :00 A. M. 

Castine, 7 :no " 

Deer l^le, 8:00 " 

Seds^vlck, 8 :;50 " 

I\ll,. Desert, 11 :;W 

MUlliridge, 3:00 P. M. 

Jonesport, 4 :00 " 

Arriving at IMachiasport at 6 :00 " 



Going West Leaves 

Machiasport at 5:00 A. M. 

.Jonesijort, 6:;j0 " 

Millbridge, 8 :00 " 

Mt. Desert, 11:00 " 

Sedgwick, T :00 P. M. 

Deer Isle, 1 :30 " 

Castine, 3 :0u " 

Rockland 5 :::!0 " 

Arrive at Portland at 13 :00 Midnight. 

" Boston at 10:30 A.M. 



State rooms and through tickets can be secured at No. 82 Washing- 
ton Street, Boston. J. W. Richardson, Agent, Boston, and Ross and 
Sturdivant, Agents, Portland. The accommodatiohs on board the 
Lewiston are superior, — offtcers worthj^ and affable— attendants Idnd 
and generous. 

The Steamer Argo, Capt. Kissam, leaves Ellsworth for Belfast every 
]^Ionday, Wednesday and Friday, at 6 o'clock, A. M., touching Mt. 
Desert, at Hodgdon's Landing, Brooklin, Sedgwick, Deer Isle and 
Castine, arriving in Belfast in time to connect with SanfDrds' Indepen- 
dent Line for Boston ; also connecting with the Maine Central Railroad 
for Augusta, Portland and Boston. Returning— leaves Belfast for 
Ellsworth and the above-named landings every Tuesday, Thursday 



8 MT. DESERT ISLAND AND THE CRANBERRY ISLES. 

and Saturday morning, on arrival of the Steamers Cambridge and 
Katahdin. The steamer Argo is a good substantial side -wheel boat of 
250 tons burthen, with good accommodations for passengers, and in 
first class order. 



HISTORY OF MT. DESERT. 

" The Bald Mountain's shrubless brow — 
The gray and thunder smitten Pile 
Which marks afar the Desert Isle," 

"Was first seen by John Cabot, the Venetian, though an inhabitant of 
Bristol, England, who received a commission from Henry VII., and 
sailed in tlie beginning of May, 1407, on a voyage of discovery, ac- 
companied by his son. Sebastian Cabot; and one or both of them dis- 
covered the continent of North America, the year before tlie main land 
of South America had been discovered by Columbus, and two years 
before it had been discovered by Americus. 

Worcester's History, page 257, 18 v., says : " The land first seen 
was called Prima Vista, which is supposed to have been a part of New- 
foundland. They proceeded further north, in search of a passage to 
India, but finding no appearance of one, they taclied about and sailed 
as far as Florida. They erected crosses along the coast, and took a 
formal possession of the country in behalf of the crown of England. 
This was the foundation of the English claim to North America." 

In 1620, a patent was granted by King James, to the Dulie of Lenox, 
Ferdinando Gorges, and others, styled, "The Council of Plymouth, 
in the County of Devon, for settling and governing New England." 
This patent granted to them the country extending from lat. 40 deg. to 
48 deg. N., — or, from Philadelphia to St. John, Newfoundland. 

When Sir Walter Raleigh, with his twelve armed vessels, sailed for 
Guinea, to develop the immense gold mines, which he reported vault- 
ed the island, the Spaniards and Portuguese who had settlements 
there, and were working a small mine at St. Thomas, resolved, through 
courage and avarice, to show themselves superior, not only in arts and 
arms, but also in justice of quarrel; they applied to Alexander, VI., 
who then filled the papal chair (1618) ; and he generously bestowed on 
the Spaniards the whole western, and on the Portuguese the whole 
eastern ps.rt of the globe,. 



HISTOr.Y OF MT. DE3ERT. 9 

In 1603, Henry IV, of France, granted to Sieur de Monts, all the 
conntry included between the fortieth and the forty-sixth degrees of 
latitude North, or, from Philadelphia to Quebec. Thus it seems that 
Mt. Desert was claimed, by different grants and considerations, long 
before it Avas settled. 

It is reasonably supposed, that one of the land marks raised bj' John 
Cabot or his son Sebastian, was on Mt. Desert, or " Coaste Ililles," as 
reported, from which so many eastern vessels took their departure, 
bound further up or down the coast. Other claims besides these men- 
tioned, have taken in about the same territory, indeed, it would be 
impossible to disentangle the ditFerent grants which embraced the 
same lattitude. 

The Protestants, who acknowledged not the authority of the Roman 
Pontiff, established the first discovery as the foundation of their title ; 
and if a pirate or sea adventurer of their nation had but erected a stick 
or stone on the coast, as a memorial of his taking posession, they con- 
cluded the whole continent belonged to them, and thought themselves 
entitled to expel or exterminate, as usurpers, the ancient possessors or 
inhabitants. 

We begin the settlement of Mt. Desert with De Monts. An effort to 
inaugurate the settlements before this time would be fruitless, unless, 
by some mystic revelation, we could trace the pedigree of the lost 
tribe of Israel. 

On the sixth of May, 1604, De Monts arrived, with his two vessels, 
at a harbor on the south-east coast of Acadie. Poutrincourt, his asso- 
ciate, was in command of one of the vessels, and Nicholas D'Aubri, 
a priest, accompanied them on their first voyage. They landed on the 
island to replenish their supply of water, and while the crew were 
filling the tanks and tubs, D'Aubri, who, with a party went to explore 
the forest and reconnoitre the lakes, stopped at one of the brooks to 
drink, and as he bent over the water his sword escaped from the scab- 
bard; he did not miss it until he reached the boat, then went back to 
find it and lost his way; his companions made search, but were 
obliged to leave him to his fate; sixteen days he wandered round the 
shore, praying for deliverance from solitude, and the terror of such a 
death as seemed inevitable ; he was at last rescued by a party of his 
own men, who had returned to the island in search of reputed gold 
and silver plate and money, and carried back to his companions who 
received him as one from the dead. 

De Monts did not remain long at Acadie ; trouble with the fishermen 
and the traders caused Henry to extinguish the patent. 

Poutrincourt went to Port Royal (now Annapolis, N. S.) and sent 
Biencourt, his son, to France, in 1608, for a supply of men and pro- 
visions. Their application to the French Government for assistance 
seemed to awaken the attention of Catholicism to the new world. Tlie 

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10 HISTORY OF MT. UESKRT, 

King made a condition of his aid to the enterprise, ''that attempts 
should be made to convert the natives to the Catholic Faith. The 
Jesuits commissioned to the work were Fathers Biarde and Masse, 
who embarked with Biencourt. On their arrival, Poutrincourt return- 
ed to France, leaving his son in command of Port Royal. These 
priests assumed rather more authority in the temporal manag'ement of 
the settlement than was wholesome to Biencourt, who told them that 
it was his part to rule them on earth, and theirs to point out to him the 
road to Heaven. They threatened him with the anathemas of the 
Catholic church, and he threatened them with a pugUistic chastise- 
ment. 

Somehow the priests found their way to Mt. Desert, the same year. 
Williamson's History locates the place as selected by the Missionaries, 
" on the western side of the pool,'' or Somes' Sound, just at Somes- 
ville. Whittier says 

"Far up the river have come : 
They have left theiv boats— they have entered the wood, 
And filled the depth of solitude 
With the sound of the rangers' drum. 
The hermit priest who lingers now — 
While gazing on the scene below, 
May half forget the dream of home, 
That nightly with his slumbers come, — 
The ti'anquil skies of sunny France, 
The peasant's hai-vest soug and dance, 
The vines around the hillside wreathing. 
The soft airs midst their clusters breathing. 
The wings which dipped, the stars which Bhona 
Within thy bosom, blue Garonne! 
And round the Abbey's shadowed wall, 
At morning spring and even fall. 

Sweet voices in the still air singing, — 
The chant of many a holy hymn,— 

The solemn bell'of vespers ringing,— 
And hallowed torch-light falling dim 
On pictured saint and seraphim ! 
For here beneath him lies unrolled, 
Bathed deep in morning's flood of gold, 
A vision gorgeous as the dream 
Of the beautified may seem, 
Wlien, as his Church's legends Bay, 
Borne upward in ecstatic bliss. 
The rapt enthusiast soars away 
Unto a brighter world than this ; 
A mortal's glimpse beyond the pale, — 
A moment's lifting of the veil 1 " 

Here they formed and fortified a habitation, and entered with great 
zeal upon the work ©f converting the natives to Christianity. It is 
probable there were no inhabitants but the savages. After five years' 
labor, with little or no success, they returned to Port Royal. 

In the meantime, Madame Gurclieville, a lady very near to Marie de 
Medicis, and famed for her beauty and piety, obtained a transfer of the 
grant of De Monts, to which Louis Fourteenth added all of North 
America from the 25th to the oOth degrees of latitudes, or, from Cape 
Florida to the St. Lawrence. By subscription, and through the influ- 
ence of her friends at court, she fitted out a ship under the command 



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of one Saussag'e, her agent, and accompanied by Du Tliet, a priest, to 
plant the cross in the wilderness of Acadie. 

The ship arrived at Port Koyal in the spring of 1613 ; they found the 
settlement reduced to utter misery, liiarde and Masse, with three 
others, joined the ship's company, and they sailed for a more moderate 
latitude — westward. When off Mt. Desert, thej'' experienced heavy 
weather, — storms and furious gales, with fog, drove them close to the 
stone-walled shore, so near, that in the calm which followed, the ship 
was thrown upon the head-land, by the old surge of the undertow and 
the incoming tide. They eftected a lauding, however, set up a cross, 
and in gratitude for their escape from the maddened elements, dedica- 
ted the spot ■• Saint Sauveur." 

Biarde situated the place as three leagues from their first habitation 
on the pool. There is a dLffereuce among writers, who have attempted 
and assumed to show to the present people of Mt. Desert, the locality 
of St. Sauveur, but from the most reliable comparison, and positive 
reasoning, it is evident that it was somewhere between South West 
Harbor, lower dist., and East Bass Harbor; and the landing place at 
Ship Harbor, just to the east of Bass Harbor Head ; local tradition 
makes it so — hence, the name — Ship Harbor. The oldest inhabitants 
say their earliest information was such. One responsible man says he 
was told by an old lady living in Warren, that her Grandmother was 
■wrecked, when a little girl, at the precise spot mentioned; in the ear- 
lier moiety of the 19th century, and then after much suffering was 
carried to Virginia. This is given by no less a person than Colonel 
James Crockett ot Eockland, — and as we listened to his story, we 

" We seem to look 
Upon the Jesuit's Cross and Brook,-» 
Ou the brow of a hill, which slopes to meet 
The flowing tide, and bathe its feet, — 
The bare washed rock, and tlic drooping grass, 
And the creeping vine, as the waters-pass, — 
A rude and unshapely chapel stands. 
Built up in that wild "by unskilled hands ; 
Yet the traveller knows it a place of prayer, 
For the holv rign of the cross is there : 
And should he chance at that place to be, 
Of a Sabbatn morn, or some halloMed day, 
When prayers are made, and masses .ire said. 
Some for tlie living and some for the dead. 
Well might that traveller start to see 
The tall dark forms, that take their way 
From the birch canoe, on the river shore. 
And the forest paths to the chapel door; 
And marvel to mark the naked knees 
And the dusky foreheads bending there, 
While, in coarse white vesture, over these 
In blessing or in prayer, 
Stretcliing abroad his thin pale hands, 
Like a shi-ouded ghost, the Jesuit stands.'' 

It would occupy considerable space to give all the facts which make 
the theory true; so much, given on local logic, agrees perfectly with 
history. One thing more may be added, though,— the three leagues 



12 HISTORY OF MT. DESEKT. 

spoken of by Biaixle, is equivalent to twelve French miles, about the 
distance from Somesville to Bass Harbor. 

During their stay a fort was built, gardens planted, farming, fishing 
and hunting made up their avocation. 

The different accounts are so conflicting as to the length of their 
sojourn, that no real time can be opinioned; they must have staid 
more than one season, though, because Madame de Gurcheville sup- 
plied them with their stores, ammunition and church furniture. 

Capt. Samuel Argal, Governor of South Virginia, was cast away on 
one of his fishing voyages to the coast of Maine, a little further up the 
bay, somewhere near Castine. The natives told him about the Catholic 
reign at St. Sauveur, which fired his indignation and opened his angry 
veins. He returned home, raised an expedition to expel them as 
intruders upon the North and South Virginia patent. Eleven fishing 
vessels, sixty men, and fourteen pieces of small cannon comprised the 
force under Commodore Argal. The French were unprepared for an 
attack — many were away from the fort at the time ; guns were dis- 
mounted, and only a feeble resistance made. The fleet fired only one 
broadside. Du That was killed and a few wounded. Argal took 
possession in the name of the King, and carried the larger part of the 
settlement, v/ith Biarde, to Virginia, itasse, with a few others, 
escaped to the woods and manoeuvered clear of the Englishmen, and 
through the influence of the English Ministry, was allowed to remain 
ou the island sometime afterward. 

"Ah, weary priest I— with pale hands pressed 

On thy throbbing brow of pain, 
Baffled in thy life lou^ quest, 

Overworn with toiling vain, 
How ill thy troubled musings fit 
The holy quiet of a breast 
With the Dove of Peace at rest, 
Sweetly brooding over it, 
Thoughts of strife, and hate, and wrong 
feWept thy heated brain along, — 
Hoarv priest I thy dream is done 
Of a hundred red tribes won 
To the pale of the Holy Church." 

The place of the action just described, was down by the sea-wall, 
and some relics of the old fort have been found in the present century. 

Governor AVinthrop, who sailed from Cowes, April 8, 1630, in the ship 
Lady Arabella, made land on the eighth day of June, and reported 
it in his journal as Mt. Mansel for the French. 

Champlain first named the island " Monts Desert," in compliment 
to De Monts, and from its wild and bald appearance, — hence, the mod- 
ern accent, — Mount Des-ert. 

It is evident the red men inhabited the island, as relics of various 
sorts were not uncommon, even within a few years, but, since rustica- 
tors and itemizers have visited the island they have disappeared. 

The ieland appears in history again in 1688, by M. la Motte Cadilliac» 



HISTOKi' OF MT. KESEET. 13 

who received fi-om Louis X^IY.. a grant coataiuing- one hundred thous- 
and acres, embracing the whole neighborhood of Mt. Desert. He 
made a vigorous effort to maintain his grant, but was obliged to leave 
it in 1713, after the whole territory of Acadie had been ceded to Eng- 
land by the treaty of Utrecht. Cadilliac retained, with proud afiectiou, 
the memory of his island dominion, and during the remainder of life, 
autographed himself "• Lord of Mt. Desert." 
All those old places are now 

"Arched over l>y the aucieufc woods, 
Which time, iutliose dull solitudes, 
Wielded the dim axe of Decay, 
Alone iiatu ever shorn away." 

Up to 1701, the island was uninhabited, save by Indians, and the 
frequent visits of coasters, traders, fishermen and surveyors. 

Suspending a few years, we take up the romantic history of the 
French again, in the persons of M. and M'me. de Gregoire. After the 
war of the revolution, the old French claim recognized to any part of 
our coasc, was allowed by the General Court of Massachusetts. 
George Bernard, who formerly by a grant owned the whole island, 
lost his title by conllseation. His son, John Bernard of Bath, who had 
been a Whig daring the war, had restored to him half of the island; 
the dividing line was,— South West Harbor, Somes' Sound— thence 
north-west to the shore on Jordan's E,iver. 

The following quotation is the most reliable, concerning the Greg- 
oires we have been able to find. It was written by the Editor of the 
Eepublican Journal, in September, 1853 : 

•'In Jfovember, 1786, ^Mons. Gregoire claimed in ria-ht of his wifei 
by virtue of a grant made to her grandfather, M. la Motte Cardilliac- 
General Lafayette had written to M. Otto, Frencli charge to our Gov- 
ernment in favor of tlie claim, and it was granted from this 
•consideration. M. Gregoire and those with him were naturalized by 
special act of Congress, and became possessors of public lands in Mt. 
Desert. Many of the land titles recorded in the Hancoclc Registry are 
from M. Gregoire. There are now on the island few if any of the 
descendants of the original French settlers." 

De Costa saj's : 

''Here, near Hull's Cove, dwelt Madame Marie Therese de 
Gregoire, a descendant of De la Motte Cardilliac. It appears that 
in the year 16S8, the King of France gave to Cardilliac a large 
tract of land on the mainland, together Avith the Island of Mt. 
Desert, of which he took nominal possession, and executed several 
papers in which he styled himself ' Lord of Donaquee and Mt. Desert,' 
Donaquee was the Indian name for wliat is now Union Kiver. M'me. 
Gregoire, in company with her husband, Barthelemy de Gregoire, ap- 
peared before the General Court of Massachusetts, sitting in Boston, 
petitioning for the confirmation of her right, as gi'and-daughter to 
Cardilliac. The Court heard and granted her plea, July, 6, 1787, and 
afterwards by a special act naturalized Madame, her husband and 
children, Pierre, Nicholas and Marie. Madame Gregoire came in 
possession of about 60,01)0 acres, embracing parts of the mainland and 
the entire island, except where a,h-ea.dy occupied by actual settlers," 



14 inSTORY OF JIT. LiESEKT- 

It is probable they lacked the essential elements to succeed as pion- 
eers, for ill less than ten j-ears they sold the most of their estate to 
William Bingham. They died in 1610, and their graves, or the spot 
where they were buried, is just outside of the graveyard, at HulFs 
Cove. Protestantism, or liberal prejudice would not allow them to be 
interred inside the cemetery walls, — at least, so runs the tradition, yet, 
it was the same to tliem, as long as the place was not blessed by a 
priest with book and cross ; and there they are, if the reader can 
imagine where, the last relics of the French on Mt. Desert. 

It has been impossible for us to learn what ever became of Pierre, 
Nicholas and Marie, but it is supposed they returned to France to 
occupy an inherited estate. If either of them are living, it would seem 
proper, and iilial duty, to some way iuhearse the remains of their 
parents or perpetuate the memoiy of their resting place. 



TOPOGRAPHY OF THE ISLAND. 

Tlie greatest length of the island is fifteen miles, in a line from Bass 
Harbor headland to Sand Point, Eden; and the greatest width "from 
shore to shore," is ten miles. It is twelve miles from Seal Cove, Tre- 
mont, to Bar Harbor, Eden, and fourteen miles Irom Bass Harbor 
head to the toll-bridge, as near as can be reckoned by the most accu- 
rate survey that has yet been made. The whole island measures about 
one hundred and thirty square miles, and is nearly equally divided, 
reckoning the little islands, belonging to the several towns, Eden, Mt. 
Desert and Tremuut. The town lines run irregularly east and west, 
portioning to Tremont the south and south-west peninsular land ; to 
Mt. Desert, an uneven latitudinal belt ; and to Eden the whole north- 
ern end, in shape like the disarranged outlines of a hemi-cy-cle. The 
shores are curiously wrought, with dangerous reefs and safe harbors ; 
'-" many a bold projecting point is seen extending far, while harbors 
intervene." 

"Where Somes' Sound leaves its waters in South "West Harbor— the 
shores form a nook like bay, with the Cranberry Isles moved out far 
enough to form a breakwater. The pisncipiil harbors on the island 



TOPOOKAPIIV OF THE ISLAXD. 15 

c«ast are Xortli East Harbor, South AVest Harbor and Bass Harbor. 
The names North East and South West are attached to the harbor on 
account of then- range from Greenuio^'s Island. Bass Harbor took its 
name from the fact that it was ouce fdled witli those kind of fish which 
inhaoited the waters at tlie time of its first settlement, and a weir was 
built for taking them, across the entrance of Richardson's Cove on the 
eastern shore. 

We name these as the principal harbors, because they are most fre- 
quented by vessels bound up or down the coast. 

South West Harbor is the largest on the coast, and as safe as any, 
— it has an entrance — eastern and western. 

Bar Harbor is on the Xorth East coast of the island, and takes its 
name from the bar which connects it to one of the Porcupine Islands. 
It is a smooth harbor, always quiet, even in the turmoil of the gale. 

The other harbors are all deep, and good holding-ground for anchor- 
age. The harbors on the western coast are Goose Cove, Seal Cove, 
and Sawyer's Cove ; each derived its name from the title-name it 
bears.' 

One fact concerning the superior privilege for boating, is, the waters 
flow gradually in the harbors, and there is no swift current in the sur- 
rounding bays, — boats sail out of the basin harbors, on the mimicking 
bays, and then farther on, the dark fringes of the ocean. The harbor 
landings are as smootli as lake shores, apparently without an ebb or 
flow, but down the mountain shore the under-current heaves up against 
the granite wall with terrible force, grand and awful. 

There is such a contrast in the ditferent characters of the island, 
that it is difficult to make an explicit topography — without the sight of 
a map, and the accompauyiug one, taken from the actual survey of 
every road and place, will better explain itself. 

The mountains lie in a range, beginning one half mile from Seal 
Cove, Ti'emont, to Somes Sound, then they are scattered over the south 
eastern portion of the towns of Mt. Desert and Eden. Green Mount- 
ain, which is the third in range from the eastern shore, is 1,762 feet 
above the mean level of the sea, according to the U. S.^Coast Survey, 
on which was the principal station. In front of Green Mountain '"some 
huge nameless rocks are ascending." The mountains, are called by 
the inhabitants as they range from west to east, first Western Mountain, 
second Defile Mountain, third Dog Mountain, or in poetry "Lovera 
Leap." Defile Mountain inclines considerably to the north, and is 
called Beach Hill; between it and the margin land of Dog Mountain, 
lies Deming's Pond. The road between S. W. Harbor and Somesville 
lies along with it ; some tourist named it Echo Lake, from the constant 
echoing of every sound that happens on the road. The eastern coun- 
tenance of Dog Mountain is remarkably grand. It descends, almost 
perpendicular, all of 9(X) feet to the surface of Somes' Sound, and then 



IG TOPOGRAniY OF THE ISLAND. 

down ten or fifteen fathoms. In front of Dog Mountain, and back of 
Fernald's Point, is Carrol Mountain, whicli is a perfect minatxire of 
Green Mountain. It is the most picturesque of mountain scenery on 
the island. On Dog Mountain, is the famous "Gold Diggins,'' where 
one or two men were led by spirits to jmcover the ledge, and watch for 
the opening of the granite safes, where Kid and some others hurried 
their treasures. This fact the author received from the proprietor, 
who, generously told him "all about it," and who politely invited him 
to inspect the curious, tangible marks which are very prominent. 

The eastern shore of the Sound is walled by the slopes of Brown's 
or Hadlock Mountain, which is also called Pond Mountain, from the 
two ponds on the east. Then, Robbey Mountain, Jordan's Mountain, 
Bubble Mountain, Green Mountain, Kebo Mountain, and Newport 
Mountain. The huge nameless pile, on the south, is always seen, but 
seldom visited. The mountains all slope away gradually to the north- 
ward and west-ward, and strike out boldly and perpendicularly on the 
east and south. The other mountains, fall but a little short of the 
hight of Green Mountain, and blending their grandeur, or throwing 
their shadows from one to the other, they lift their caps together, and 
all appear at once. 

" The island is cleft in the middle " by Somes' Sound, a deep, swift 
bay or lake nearly five miles long. It took its name from Abraham 
Somes, the first settler who maintained his position on Mt. Desert. It 
is narrow and bold, even to the verge of the mountains on either 
shore, and widens and shoals at the source and mouth. There are 
four fresh water lakes or ponds ; three lying north and south across 
the line between Treraont and Mt. Desert— all west of Somes Sound. 
First, Seal Cove Pond or " Lily Lake," as some one named it for the 
many pond lilies that grow in it, — Great Pond and Deming's Pond, or 
"Echo Lake.*' In Eden, between Jordan's and Green Mountains, is 
Eagle Lake, or Pond. There are, of course, many smaller ponds, too 
many to notice. Looking from the top of either mountain, the low- 
land seems pierced by holes, just like a lot of springs. The island is 
surrounded by bays, except on the north where it is separated from 
the mainland by Jordan's Piver,— on the east. Frenchman's Bay, 
south, Placentia Bay, west, Bluehill Bay and Morgan's Bay, and just 
out side of these is the ocean. The topography consists of mountains, 
hills, and plains, ponds, lakes, rivers and bays, all on the verge of the 
Atlantic Ocean. 



SCENERY. 17 



SCEXERY. 

"Novor need an American look bcj-ond hin own conntry for the sublime ami 
lii^autifiil of natural scenery."— /^rr/H^. 

"Mt. Desert is a little world of itself."— IF. W. A. Heath. 

Tlie islaiul lias been "written up"' so inaiiy times, and by so many 
classes, that it seems weakness for one reared on its fountain soil, to 
attempt a description. No less a poet than Whittier — has pictured it 
with his pen, while others, local and foreign, have lent their talents to 
its -wonderful impression. Artists have painted its most striking 
features, and tourists have sketched all over it. Reporters have 
interviewed it, and writers have described it, all in their most eloquent 
and vivid styles, but not once has it been niagnilied or over-represented, 
—it is inultnm inparco — its bronzed statuary and wavy tile-land, when 
the moon strikes deep into the night, fairly imitates the •' torso of Her- 
cules " in great shadows and spreads, obicular, the embellished walls 
of Pantheon. The 

" Mysterious ronnd! what skill, what force divine, 
Deep felt, in these appear i a 8imi)le train ; 
Yet so deli}j;htfnl mixed, such kinil art. 
Such beauty and benelicence combined; 
Shade, luiperceived — so softening into shade; 
And all so forming an harmonious whole. — " 

There is not a hill-top or cross road on the whole Island void of 
something picturesque — but facts alone will here be given, and the 
reader must imagine or see the rest. The points of greatest interest 
are on the eastern side of the Island. — the ragged cliffs— the Gorge — 
the " Spouting Horn ''—the *• Devil's Oven " and the " Schooner Head,'' 
where 

" Ye headlonp: torrents, rapiil and profound; 
Y'^e sotter IJoods, tlial leap the lnniii<l maze 
Along the mad ; and them, luujcstii- main, 
A secret world of wonders in tliy self. " — 

The eastern scenery is wild and awfully grand, and the western, 
placid and sublime, like nature in her milder mood. 

" The Gorge " is the valley between Mt. Kebo and Newport Moun- 
tain. Tlie road from Bar Harbor down round the sea-shore runs 

3 



13 scEXF.uy. 

through it. " Schooner Head " took its name from the likeness of a 
fore-and-aft schooner — its two masts, sails all set, and bow-sprit with 
headsails. On this headland is the cleft in solid rock, the " Spoutin": 
Horn." It resembles, in form. "The snow-bank tunnel," as though 
some one had commenced on the shore and shoveled into the bank a 
distance, and then taken a turn up and out through the top. The 
water Hows in smoothly M'hen calm, but during a heavj' south-east 
wind it rushes in with such force as to dash the spray, with deafening 
roar, up through the Horn many feet above the tops of the trees into 
the air. The " Devil's Oven" is a little to the south of the Horn. It is 
a huge cave worked out of the softer rock, by the architect, " Storm 
King." Its seething and groaning is fearful, when the billows chase 
their leader in among the anemones and sea hay. 

Over on the western side of the Island, the scenes are very different, 
— smooth bays and coves— a better chance for boating. "Morgan's 
Ba}'" and "Patten's Bay "are always smooth and beautiful in the 
strongest winds, and island and bay scenery far exceeds that of any 
other point. The "Look Out" on Bartlett's Island, where the U.S. 
Coast Survey have a station, one mile from " Lily Lake " is very tine — 
superior to that of the western gaze from Green Mountain. The tour- 
ists miss a great deal unless they drive on the road from Somesville to 
Centre Harbor, by the " Mill on the Floss," and round the upper end 
of the three lakes. 

De Tocqueville describes the evening thus : 

" The traveller holds his breath to catch the faintest sound of life. 
You hear a church-bell, or a woodman's axe, or the report of a gun, 
or the barking of a dog, or, at any rate, the indistinct hum of civilized 
life. Now all is motionless, all is silent beneath the leafy arch. It 
seems for a moment as if the Creator had withdrawn His countenance, 
and all nature had become paralyzed." 

" A charming scene of nature is displayed." 



GLACIAL rllEKOMENA ON 3tT. DESEKT. l<j 



GLACIAL PllENOMEXA OK MT. DESEKT. 

A contribution of Professor Louis Agassiz, to the Atlantic Monthly, 
Is here quoted for the benefit of those Miio have so much wondered 
over the curious marks, and scratches of the ledges, queer grooves, 
odd impressions, and foreign loolving rocks. It is an able production 
on the glacial philosphy, and those who read it are delighted and con- 
firmed. 

" The picturesque island of Mt. Desert is separated from the main- 
land by a narrow arm of the sea. Much higher in the centre than on 
the margin, its mountains seem, as one draws near, to rise abruptly 
from the sea. It is cleft through the middle by a deep fiord, known as 
Somes' Sound, dividing the southern half of the island into two une- 
qual pox'tions ; and its shores are indented by countless bays and coves 
Avliich add greatly to its beauty. We entered the island by the north- 
western side, from Trenton, and proceeded at once to Bar- Harbor, on 
the eastern side, a favorite resort in summer on account of its broken 
varied shore, and of the neighborhood of Green Mountain, with its 
exquisite lake, sunk in a cup like depression half way up tlie mountain 
side, and its magnificent view from the summit. At the very entrance 
to the jsland, on passing over the toll bridge at Trenton, there is an 
excellent locality for glacial tracks. The striaj are admirably well 
preserved on some ledges at the Mt. Desert end of the bridge. The 
trend of these marks is north-northeast, instead of due north as in 
most localities ; and here is one of the instances where this slight de- 
flection of the lines is evidentlv due to the lay of the land. ThAsland 
is not only highest towards the centre, but narrows at the northern 
end as it sinks down toward the shore, from which it is separated on 
eitlier side by two deep fiords running up into the coast of Maine, and 
known as Frenchman's Bay on the east, and Union Bay on the west. 
It is evident that the mass of ice passing from the maiidand over this 
arm of the sea sunk eastward and westward into these two gorges, 
acquiring, no doubt, additional thickness thereby, and, in consequence 
of this change in its normal course, Avas slightly deflected from its 
usual direction in working its way up against the shores of Jit. Desert. 
This is shown by the fact that glacial marks on the northwest shore 
bear as I have already said, slightly to the east, while those on the north- 
east shore bear slightly to the west. On approaching the centre of 
the island the marks converge towards each other, and regain their 
primitive direction due north and south, on its more elevated position. 
'I'h<' morning following my arrival at Bar Harbor I «Dcnt in cxamin- 



20 (JL.VCIAL I'lIKNOMKKA OX MT. CESKUT. 

5ii,u- the uliU'iul i)lioiioineii:i in its iniinodiate aveigliborliood. At IJar 
Harbor itself, tlie i1iaii<s )jear north and nortJi-west. A mile Inrtiier 
south they are all in a north-north-westerly direction. The cove of tlie 
Hpoutinsi' Horn, however, — a deep recess in the rock, wJiere the surf 
acts A\itli wonderful force. — is cnyravcd on botJi sides with lines ruii- 
nin<>- due north. On the same side of the island, considerably to tlu^ 
south of Bar Harbor, there is a striklnu; sea-wall composed of coarse 
materials, thrown up In a line alonnf the shore, formed, no doubt, by 
some unusually severe storm. colncidin<:^ with high-water. It resem- 
bles tlie well known sea-wall of Clielsea Beach. Behind tliis wall 
stretches an extensive marsli, formerly a part of the sea. Somewhat 
beyond it, on the shore, are two very distinct and polished grooved 
surfaces, with the lines ninniiii!: due north. On the aftiernoon of the 
same day, I ascended Green ]\lount:^n. Along the lower part of the 
road the marks run north-west, then north-north-west, convei-ging 
more and more toward normal course, until, after passing the tirsit 
summit, and thence upward, they lose entirely the sUmting directiou 
impressed upon them by the dellection of the ice about Frenchman's 
Bay, and run due north again. All the way up the last slope of the 
mountain, wherever the rock is cxwsed, ma}- be seen well-engraved 
Hat surfaces of rose-colored protogyne on whJcli the scratches and 
and grooves sometimes run for twenty feet without any perceptible 
interruption. On the very summit is a quartz dike cut to the same 
level with the general outline of tlio knoll, on which the marks are 
verj" distinct. I arrived on the extreme point where the southern de- 
scent is so abrupt that the mountain seems to plunge into ocean, just 
at sunset. The sea, as far as the eye could reach^ was still glowing 
Avilh color; amethyst clouds lloated over the numerous islands to the 
south-west; while on the otiicr side in the gathering shadows lay tlie 
little lake midway on the mountain slope, and, below, the many inlets, 
coves, and islands of Frenchniun"s Buy. 

On the following day. we crossed to the opposite side of the island, 
skirting Somes' Sound, and tlie next morning entered the Sound in a 
small schooner. A still' breeze from the north, which obliged us to 
tack constantly, and made our progress very slow, prevented us from 
exploring this'siiigular inlet for its whole length; but short as it was, 
our sail gave me ample opportunity for observing tlie glacial plienom- 
cna along its shores. At tlie mouth of the Sound before entering the 
narrows, there are several concentric terminal moraines on both sides 
of the /lords. No doubt they once strsetched across it, and have been 
broken through by the sea. On either side, to the rigiit and left, in 
ascending the Sound, are little valleys running down to the water; and 
evidently they have all had their local glaciers, for there are terminal 
moraines at \he moutli of each one. Tiiese facts only contirnied my 
anticipations. 1 had seen, on passing the head of tlie tiord. in our 
<lrive of tlie previous day, that it must, from its formation atlbrd aii 
admirable locality for glacial remains, unless they had been swept 
away by tlie sea. The "town of Somesvilie is beautifully situated jit 
tiie head of Somes' Sound. Approacliing it from tlie east, I observed 
that the glacial marks Avliich had beeniiointiiig due iiortli began to 
point west-north-west, while on the western side of the settlement they 
pointed east-north-east. Evidently there is an action here similar to 
that by which the marks are deilected on the northern side of the 
island "about Frenchman's Bay and Union Bay. Tlie mass of ice com- 
ing from tlie north had been gradually sinking into the fiord from 
opposite sides. Near Somesvilie church the marks run due nortk 
jiiain . 



*;i/ACrAL rilF.NOMICXA ON 51T. invSKUT. 21 

The extensive siuface of polished ami sci'atcliod ro<:-lv in (his locality 
recall tlie celebrated llelleriatteii of the valley of Ilasli. Froui 
rSoutli AVest Harbor we followed the shore to Bass Ilarboi- and Heal 
<;ovc. There arc frequent indications of glacial action along tliis road, 
.and one or two points of si)ecial interestr At Bass Harbor there is a 
large dike of green trap riiniting at right angles >vith the tide current. 
Tii()ugh regularly overflowed at ]iigh-\>. ater, the action of the sea has 
not ailected the glacial characters, which are so peculiarly distinct at 
this spot. Not oik'y is the dike itself deeply scored with striie and fur- 
.rows running due north, but being of a softer quality than the granitic 
rock wliicii it intersects, it has been cut to a little lower level, and the 
vertical walls of the lissue are polished, scnit<;h'e<.I and grooved in the 
same way. 1 met here witli one of the instances showing the charac- 
iter of the working-class in Anicrica winch always strike a European 
with astouislinient. There was a blacksuiith's shop near by, and being 
x'xtreniel}' anxious to obtain a specimen from it on account of the 
<dearness of its glacial characters, 1 requested the head workman, who 
had been loekiiig ou witli considerable interest, to break nie olf a 
piece. It was not an easy task, for tliere were no angles, the dike 
being sunk below the surrounding surface and perfectly smooth. Af- 
ter a tinie, and not witliout considerable hard work, a wedge was 
.driven in, and witli tlie help of ;i crow-bar two or three very satisfac- 
tory specimens were pried out. I natural!}^ wished to pay the man for 
his" labor: but lie refused to take anything, saying that I was a geol- 
.ogist traveiliug for the sake of investigation. He added, that he sub- 
scribed for one or two papers and magazines; perhaps he sliould meet 
with some of tlie published results of the journey one of these days, 
.and tliat would be the best reward for the little help he had given. 
Seeing his interest in the olijeet of my researches, I explained to liim 
the signiticance of this dike, showing to him the marks ])ointing 
straigiit to tlic iiortli. and evidently entirely independent of tidal action, 
since tliey r;ni at right angles with it. Asl bade him goodbye, lie said, 
* Henceforth this dike shall be my compass; I shall know wlieii th«' 
wind blows due north.' The locality Avas, indeed, especially interest- 
ing from several points of view. It is one of the few instances 1 have 
.seen in which a dike, l>cing composed of a softer pate than the adjoin- 
ing rock, has yielded more readily to tlie ice-plow, and is cut to a lower 
level, thus forming a broad, flat furrow, the upright wall of which is 
scored as deeply as the horizontal surt^ice of the dike. 

At Seal Cove, however, on the south-western shore, the marks lia\e 
again a north-westerh^ direction. South of Seal Cove all tlie surface 
■Mietiualities are Moutonees^ the stri;e running iiortli-north-west. We 
returned to Trenton bridge by the western shore, having skirted the 
whole island. 

The coast range oast and west of Somes' Sound is divided into a 
series of hills by transverse valley's, in ni'iJSt of which are small lakes 
formed by transverse moraines at their southern extremity. Begin- 
)iing east, and not counting tlu! less i)romlnent peaks, we liave. lirst, 
Jsewport Mountain;, next, Kebo and (Jreen Mountains ; then, .Jordan 
3Iountain, liobbc}" ^Mountain, lladlock or l*ond Mountain, and West- 
;Cot Mountain, all to the east of Somes' Sound; then following Dog 
31oiiiitain, Defile Mountain, Beach Hill, and West Mountain, all on the 
west side Somes' Sound; Denning Pond, which I have examined more 
,at detail, lies between Dog and Defile Mountains. The road along the 
Jake follows the eastern or left or lateral moraine of glacier whicli 
•once tilled its basin; and the lake il self is hemmed in by a crcsoeut- 
.ikapcd tcrmiuul monuut at its southern exti"emity. 



22 GLACIAL 1'I1EN03IEKA OX MT. DESERT. 

The lakes, eleven in number, intervening between the other moraine:? 
are likewise bordered by moraines. We have thus satisfactory evi- 
dence that at an early period of the retreat of the great ice-fieltl 
covering this continent, when it no longer moved over tlie highest 
summits of the land, local glaciers were left in the gorges facing the 
sea. 

Jlount Desert itself must have been a miniature Spitzbergen, and 
colossal icebergs floated oft" from Somes' Sound into the Atlantic 
Ocean, as they do now-a-days from Magdalena Bay." 

The head-workman mentioned in this chapter, as wedging out a 
portion of dike, Avas William N. Abbott of Tremont, who was after- 
ward rewarded by a complimentary pamphlet from the author — Prof, 
Agassiz— who published the result of bis journey in 1867. 



RESOUECES OF THE ISLAKD. 

The resources of the Island are its wood, lumber, granite, and mar*- 
itime privileges. Farming is quite conspicuous, but the soil is too 
rocky to make it extensively profitable, though there are many fine 
farms on the Island, which are carried on quite successfully. The 
harvest is not plenteous enough to till every granary, and in the spring 
many of the farmers or planters have to buy seed. Wild pasture-land 
is C[uite abundant, and cattle find their fodder from Hay until Novem- 
ber. Some keep their stock earlier and later, some later and earlier, 
but these are the average months for turning out and driving up* 
There is but little hay imported at present, and stock is constantlj' in- 
creasing. There is a dyked marsh of 150 acres at Bass Harbor, 
Tremont, wliich yields quite abundantly — far more than any up-land 
in the best cultivation. The table-land of Eden is more productive 
than most parts of the Island, probably because it is more dressed. 
About one-half of the Island has been improved. The wood and 
lumber cover the remaining portion. There is but little of the forest in 
its primeval state, it has been cut and culled thoroughly, yet it is well 
composed of old growth spruce, tir, pine, cedar, birch, maple and 
hemlock. The woods are inexhaustible for the Island use, but the ex- 
ports are telling fast upon the growth— one hundred per cent, faster 
than the growing— faster even than the people are aware— kiln-woo<l 



RESOURCES OF THE ISEAXn. 23 

is a rc'^i'iilar winter business all over the Island, and the mills are 
worked to their utmost capacity. 

There are two steam saw-mllls— one at Pretty Marsh, Mt. Desert, 
and one at Salisbury's Cove, Eden, — and ten water power saw-mills at 
diftorenl places. The '' Hydro.i>raphic Survey of Maine," Walter 
Wells, Superintendent, credits the Island with '-Eighteen and more 
powers." Eden, four powers. First, Hadley's Mills, in the west part 
of the town *, stream fed by a pond. Second, above Higgin's Saw- 
Mills. Third and fourth, on Eagle Pond stream, two saw mills; 
stream fed by three or four small ponds. Mt. Desert, four powers, ou 
the Somes' stream ; fall 30 feet in 50 rods ; power improved by mills 
Which work about ten months in the year. The stream is connected 
with three powers; the largest five by one and one-half miles; the 
others, each three and one-fourth by one-half miles. The powers 
could be increased veiy considerably, and are, in fact, sufficient for 
iullls of anj^ description, by using the best stjde of wheels and 
machinery. Freshets harmless, the water being kept back by dams. 
An excellent harbor at the place, (Somesville) where vessels load and 
unload within ten rods of the outlet of the stream. Tremont, ten 
powers, and more. First and second on Heath's Stream," the outlet 
of Seal Cove Pond, and emptying into Seal Cove, a convenient and 
safe harbor. Upon one, a saw-mill ; upon the other, a grist-mill. 
The productions of the mills can be shipped without the expense of 
trucking-. Annual lumber productions about 250,000 M. ; several 
hundred thousand staves. Total fall, 40 feet in one-fourth of a mile; 
two dams; mills work about three-fourths of a j'ear, but with proper 
improvements could run the whole year; stream connected with two 
ponds. Third, fourth, tfec, on Heath 's Stream, never improved; carry 
by flumes. Sixth, &c., at Bass llarbor'X~gi*«»sfl^ mill; six months in 
the year. The stream is five miles long ; fall 60 feet in the whole dis- 
tance. Seventh, eighth, &c., on large brooks, with sufficient power to 
inanufacture small lumber. Ninth, tenth, &c,, tide privileges, none 
of Avhicn are improved. Bass Harbor, Duck povc, and Norwood's 
Cove. 

The granite which has lately been tried, and now being worked, is 
pronounced of the first quality, by the quarrymen; and the quantitj* 
immense. A quarry has just been opened on the west side of Somes' 
Sound. 

The maritime coast of Sit. Desert is, of all other resources, the most 
improved. The safe harbors and convenient departure make it valua- 
ble to shipping. The fishing^ and coasting is tlie principal business, 
which is proved by the fact that land is more valuable round the sea- 
shore, especially at tljose points where tourists and rusticators make 
their head-quarters, at the hotels and summer boarding-houses. The 
settlements are along the shore priucipally, and where tlie best ac- 



24 KKsorrx'ES of ttte island. 

eoramodatioiis for fishiiidf, and convciiienc r-oastiuo: are, there the 
j^rowth and uicrease are the fastest. Every harbor is occupied and 
interested hi shipping, building- and sailing. The A'essels owned are 
all connnanded and manned by natives, and many a fine foreign and 
American ship is sailed by an Islander. Every year, some new vessels 
'•leap into the ocean's arms,"' and going out, compete successfully 
with other ports. Tlie coast is well lighted, and the lights well tendetl 
aiid. seldom does an Islander mistake his reolvoni«i>- andioro asliore. 



MODERN HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES. 

The "Modern History" of Mt. Desert dates back to the spring of 
17(j1, when Captain Abraham Somes of Gloucester, Mass., toolv up a 
land grant as a part of that commonwealth, came to the head of the 
lake now known as Somes' Sound, built a mill on the stream and place' 
where the "Somes Mill"' now stands, and made other improvements. 
Capt. Somes had visited the place before, in some of his voj-ages ; he 
was pilot on the New England coast and even beyond either way; be- 
ing tlie man who piloted the first English Navy Fleet hito Halifax, N. 
S., he understood perfectly the resource of Mt. Desert. He did not 
move his family down to the place which bears his name, and where 
he built a house, until later in the j^ear, Avhen Mr. James Richardson 
and familj'- joined them, and made their habitations together. Mr. 
Richardson Avas a man of education and refinement, and quite popular 
in local histoiy. HI? chose for his work, lumbering in winter and 
farming in summer. He Was of the Scotch-Irish descent, and Capt. 
Somes of the English. In a year or two others were induced to make 
their home on the Island, among them Stephen Richardson, brother to 
James, who located'himself at Bass Harbor. Soon the islands round 
began to be settled. Bartlett's Island, by Christopher Bartlett, Who 
got a deed of one hundred acres from the General Court of Massachu- 
setts, for which he paid five dollars, or its equivalent, just what it cost 
to make the deed and survey the land. Israel Bartlett, brother to 
Christopher, took up a grant and settled himself at Prettj^ Marsli at 
the time his brother went into the island which Jjears his name. 

Eden became settled in 1763, by a family named Thomas. The 
Cranberry Isles became settled about the same time. Bancroft's His- 



MOnKlJN IIISTOUV AXn HK.MIXISCKXCKS. 95 

tory, rolatiiix to Mt. Desort, says:— "The native Indians were the 
Canilms. and Alu'onqnins of tlie Abewaki nations. 



KESOLUTIOX IXCORPORATIXO PLANTATIOXS IX TIIK PHOVIXCE OF 
MASSACHUSETTS. 

In the House of Brpresentatives, February ye 15, 177G. 

jResolced, That the plantations within this colony not incorporated, 
and they are here bj' impowered to call a meeting of the inhabitants ; 
which nieetinfj shall be warned by a Justice of the Peace residinsj;- 
nearest the plantation or place where the nieetino- is to be held; which 
Justice shall issue his warrant in jjroper form to call a meeting to some 
principal inhabitant of the plantation, directino- him to set a copy of 
his warrant in some public place in said plantation, the hand fourteen 
days before said meeting; and when the inhabitants of any plantation 
or place so warned and assembled as aforesaid, they shall have the 
same privilege of choosmg a committee of Correspondence, inspection 
and safety as if they were incorporated into a town, as provided by 
this court, per resolve, dated Februaiy ye 15, 1776, and their doings 
shall be valid to all intents .^nd purposes as if they were incorporated 
into a town. 

Sent up for concurrence. 

• "William Cooper, Speaker pro tern. 
In Council, February 16, 1776. Read and concuiTed. 

Perez Morton, Deputy Secretary. 

Benjamin Greenleaf, W.alter Spooner, Michael Farley, Jabez Fisher, 
Thomas Gushing, John Whitcomb. John Taylor, Benjamin White. Jo- 
seph Palmer, Benjamin Lincoln, Elead Taylor, Caleb Cashing, Moses 
Gill, Jedediah Foster, Samuel Ilolten. 

A true copy, Attest : 

Perez Mortox, Deputy Secretary. 



Lincoln, SS. To Mr. Stephen Richardson of the Island of Mt. Desart. 

According to a state resolve of this colony, you are hereby required 
to warn and notify all the freeholders and inhabitants of the 
island of Mt. Desart and Cranberry Isle and Plasentia Isle, to as- 
semble and meet at the house of the above named Stephen Richardson 
on Saturday, the thirteenth day of this instant month March, at ten of 
the clock before noon, then and there to act upon the following partic- 
ulars, viz : 

1st. To vote and choose a moderator to regulate said meeting. 

2d. To vote and choose a Clerk. 

3d. To vote and choose three, five, seven or nine persons for a Com- 
mittee of Correspondence, Safety and Inspection, in such places as 
they may think most convenient. 



20 aiODEKN IIISTOHY AND 1^K]\I1NISCFX'KS. 

4tli. To vote and act upon any other article or matter wliicli yon may 
think best to ao^ree vipon when assembled as above. This to lie jtostcd 
up in some public place within the above mentioned boundary, or a 
copy thereof fourteen days beforehand and for Avhich, tliis shall be 
your warrant. 
Given under my hand at my duellino- house at Xarraofuao-us, this 

twelftli day of March in the sixteenth vear of his Maiesties reio-ii, 

A. D. 1770. 

Alexaxdek Campbell, Justice of tlie Peace. 

The residence of Stephen Richardson W'as at that time on what is 
now called Ci-ockett's point, west side of Bass Harbor, Tremont. The 
house went out of existance some time ago, but the debris of the cel- 
lar still remains. 



TLANTATION ORGAXIZATIOX MEETING. 

Mt. Desart, March ye 30, 177G. 

In District meetinjf assembled according to the foregoino' warrant. 

1st, Voted Mr. Josiah Black moderator for this meeting. 

2d, Voted James Richardson, Clerk. 

3d, Voted Ihat there be five men chosen a committee of Corre- 
spondence, safety and Inspection for the ensuing year. 

4th, Voted Messrs. Ezra Young, Levilliggins, Stephen Richardson, 
Isaac Bunker and Thomas Richardson be that Committee. 

5tli. Voted that Messrs. Ezra Young, Jolm Thomas and Abraham 
Somes be a committee to bring in the order of the day. 

fith, Voted that Messrs. John Tinker, Thomas Wasgatt and Abra- 
ham Somes be a committee to take care of the meddows on this and 
the adjacent islands, both salt and fresh, that strangers may not de- 
stroy them or any other privileges belonging to the islands. 

7th, Voted a booke be provided for the records of this district by 
subscription. 

8th, Voted James Richardson be Treasurer of this Dist. That the 
committefi call on John Tinker and Amasiah Scalland to render an ae- 
cnunt of what hay was cut and carried otf the island last year. (Five 
other articles are here recorded which relate to the laying out and 
building of roads to diftereut parts of the island. 

loth. Voted that this meeting stand adjourned until the tenth day of 
next June, to meet at the house of Stephen Richardson, James Rich- 
ardson, Clerk. 

The adjourned meeting oi^ened at the time and place specified. 

Voted to raise and form a company of militia, and elected for offi- 
cers, Ezra Y'^oung, Captain, Abi-aham Somes, 1st Lieutenant, Livi Hig- 
gins, 2d. Lieutenant. 

Voted that the committee of Correspondence, Safety and Inspection 
apply to Major Shaw for the provisions granted by the colon}'. Ad- 
journed. James Richardson, Clerk. 



MOi)i:i;x Hi.sroKV and i;i:jiimsci kces. 27 

Aiioiiier '.varrant tlated ^larcli o, 1777, was issued to E/ra Yoiiii<^- by 
Alex, Cainpbell. directing him to warn together the freeholders and 
inhabitants of Mount Desart, Cranbeny Isle and little Tlasentia Isle, 
for the purpose of choosing oflicers and doing plantation business. 
The meeting was held at Stephen Eichardson's house, March 25, 1777, 
and presided over by Josiah Black. James Eichardson, Clerk. Dan- 
iel IkOdack, Aniasiidi Leland, Abraham Somes, Benjamin Bowden and 
Daniel Gott, were elected a C.'onunittce of Correspondence, Safetj^ and 
Inspection, and riantation Assessors. 

All the aiuHial plantation meetings were warned by a Justice of the 
Peace, the Inhabitants having power to hold adjourned meetings only, 
without a legal warrant. 

At the plantation nicetlngs, a careful and vigorous supervision of 
town attairs was laid out, regulating all the roads, cutting of the hay, 
^\arning suspicions or lazy people out of town, which Avas most prac- 
tically applied by the plantation officers. 

On the 1st day of June, 1778, the inhabitants of Mt. Desert, Cran- 
berry and riasentia islands assembled themselves nt the house of 
Stephen Richardson, for the purpose of "giving approbation or disap. 
probation to a form of government, which, with the three amendments 
was adopted. At this meeting, "voted to see if we can agree upon 
some method to encourage the destruction of the varmint that destroys 
our grain. 

In 1780, there being no "Justice" within thirty miles of the island, a 
couple contracted and formed their own marriage ceremony, which at 
that time was lawful, 

The agreement, as recorded, is here given. 

MARRIAGE KECOIID OF NICHOLAS THOMAS AND LUCY SOMES. 

Mt. Desart, Febuary 22d, 1780. 

This is to sartify tluit. inasmuch as there is no Lawful Authority 
within thirty miles of this place, whereby we can be married as the 
Law directs— we do, Avith the consent of our parents, and in presence 
of these Avitnesses, soleuiidy promise and engage to each other in the 
foUoAving Avords : — 

I, Nicholas Thomas, do, in the presence of God, angels and these 
Avitnesses, take Lucy Somes to be my married Avife to live Avith her, to 
love, cherish, nourish and mahitain her in prosperity and adversity, in 
sickness and health, -i^ * * * .„j(| ^^ cleave to her alone as my 
only andhiAvful Avife, as long as God shall continue both our lives. 

I, Lucy Somes, do, in presence of God, angels and these Avitnesses, 
take Nicholas Thomas to be my married husband, to live Avith him, to 
honor and obey him in all things laAvful, in prosperity and adversity, in 
sickness and health, and * f * =i= to cleave to him alone as my 
only and married husband as long as God shall continue both our 
lives. 



c- ,,,,.,1 5 Nicholas Thomas, [l. s.l 
^i^ntu, ^ Lucy Somes, [l. s.j 



gg MOl)l:lJxV HISTORY AKD ItiailNlSCRKCliS. 

In presence of these witnesses : — 

( James Eichardsou, 
( Samuel Reed, 
Slg'ned, -^ James Richardson, jr> 
( Daniel Richardson, 
^ Abraham Somes. 

A true copy, attest, Abraham Somes, Clerk. 

Persons not a few, are living to-day who can testify to the long, hap«= 
py and prosperous union of the above parties, and their descendants 
are as worthj-^ and houojtable ,as any that grace the Island of Mt. 
JDesert. 



AX ACT FOR Tim CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OP MT. t>ESART. 

(Jommonvsealth of Mussachiisetts. In the ijear of our Lord one tJwtisand 
seven hundi^od and eighty~nine. 

Incorporation of the plantation of Mt. Desart, so'-called, in the County 
of Lincoln, into a town by the name of Mt. Desart. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Court assembled, and by the authority of tiie smne. that the plantation 
called Mt. Desart, together with the islands called Cranberry Island, 
Bartlett's Island, Robertson's Island and Beach Island, together with, 
the inhabitants thereon, be and they are hereby incorporated into a 
town by the name of Mt. Desart, and tlie said town is hereby vested 
with all the powers, privileges and immunities which other towns in 
the commonwealth by law do or may enjov. 

Aiid be It further enacted, that Gabriel Jolionnot, Esq., be and here- 
by is impowered to issue his warrant, directed at some principal in- 
habitant of said town, requiring him to notify the inhabitants tliereof 
bo meet at such a time and place as he shall therein appoint; to choose 
all such officers as towns by law are required to choose at their annual 
meetings. 

In the House of Representatives, Febuary 16, 1789. 
This bill having had three several readings, passed to be enacted. 

William Heath, Speaker pro tern. 

In Senate, Febuary 17, 1789. 
This bill having had two several readings, passed to be enacted 

Samuel Phillips, President. 

Approved. 

John Hancock, Governor. 

A true copy, attest, John Avkry, Jun'r Secretary. 



MOliEUX niSl-ORY ANl) ROIIN-ISCF.NCES. 29 

OKGANIZATIOX OF THE TOWX. 

A warrant tlatctl Penobscot. April 6,1789, by GabrielJolionnot, Esq.K 
'to Abraham Somes, called the inhabitants togetlier at the house of 
Abraham Somes. 

The oath of allegiance was i)resente(l and signed by over one luui- 
■dred persons. The olhcers elected were, Ezra Young, Moderater; 
James llichardson, Clerk ; Levi Higgins, Abraham Somes, Stephen 
Uichai'dson, Thomas Richardson, and Ezra Young, Selectmen. 

John Hancock received tliirty votes for Governor. 

Samuel Adams received twenty-three votes for Lieut. Governor. 

Daniel Coney received twenty-two votes for Senator. 

Adjourned to the fifteenth day of June. 

Tlie records by James Kichardson present a very fair though- faded 
-appearance, uniform in matter, an^.l plain in autogrtipliy. 



MUST RliTKESENTATIVE TO GENERAL COURT. 

"Mt. Desart, October ye 8, 1776. 
Voted, that Stephen Richardson go to tlie General Court Avith a par- 
tition in behalf of the inhabitauts of this Island." 

Mr. Richardson's bill was 4 pounds, 22 shilling, which was paid by 
the plantation— for serving the partition which James Richardson and 
lizra Young were paid 12 shilling for making. 

One record says:— "The records of the last meeting are iu the 
hands of Mr. Smith, down on Sutton's Island."' 

In 1828, the General Court of Maine passed a bill entitled, " An act 
to regulate the Fishery of Alewives iu the town of Mt. Desert." 

The population of the Island in 1820 was 2,111 persons, and in 1830 
it was 2,5G0, Cranberry Isles 257, Which, had it not been set otf from 
the town of Mt. Desert, would have made 2,818, 



BATTLE or NORWOOD'S COVE- 

Tliis action occurred on the 9th of August. 1814, commencing Tues- 
day morning at sunrise, and lasting thirty minutes. 

The approach of a ship was seen by Johnathan Rich and his sou 
John, who were fishing in a small boat outside of Duck Island a day 
ox two before the engagement, and as she neared them one of the 
crew, probably the commander, hailed: --" Come along side." 
'" Heave to, and I will." answered the boat. After getting" alongside. 



;}0 MOBEGX nisroi;i' aM) j;kmjm.sc£JsCi:s 

the executive officer explaiuecl that it Wiis the King's sliip, Te/iedo.s, 
bound ill for water, and asl^ed Mr. Rich to stand pilot, who, lilie i% 
\oydl American, refused, although a great price was offered; they 
traded the fish, though, and while the talk Was going on, the j'outll 
John, who was afterwards in the battle, was making himself busy 
counting the guns on a side, and considering the meaning of the tig- 
ures, '••IS pounds," stamped on their muzzles. 

The sloop-of-war Tcnedos found her way in by sounding, and an- 
chored in the channel between Sutton's and Bear Islands. 

At the same two coasting vessels were hauled xtp at the head of 
Norwood's Cove, one, "Four Sisters," belonging to Eenjaniiu ,Spur- 
ling, of Cranberry Island ; and it is supposed that an enemy of Mr, 
SpurlLng, reported this fact to the commander of the Knglish ship, who 
considered it his prerogative if not his duty, to seize and bond the ves- 
sel; acting on this principle an ofl^cer was sent ashore to Mr. 
Spurling's, demanding .$350 on this vessel. 

Mr. Spurling asked for a little time to raise the monej', which was 
granted, but, instead of doing so, he sent his five sons, Robert, Thom- 
as, William, Enoch and Samuel to raise the militia, and at night in- 
formed the otlicer that the bond could not bo met. Two barges were 
then got ready, the larger containing sixty men and mounting a twelve 
pound swivel ; in this one Mr. Spurling was compelled to go. The 
smaller one contained forty men and a six-poHnder. About twenty- 
five men under the command of Capt. Willianj Thom of Mt. Desert, 
lay in ambusli on what is now called Clarke's Point. As the larger 
barge advanced into the cove, Robert Spurling hailed from the shore, 
warning the English to keep oft\ but got an insulting ans>ver. "I 
would fire into you if my father was not there," said Robert. " Oh, 
never mind me I fire away ! tire away ! " said the old man, as his white 
scattering locks ixilished in the red rays of the coming sun. 

The Americans opened fire in true Continental style, coolly and 
effectively, making the enemy realize the spirit of freedom whicli 
dwelt in tiic hearts of the fisherman and pioneer, on the coast and in 
the forest, on the land and on the sea, atMt. Desert as at Boston, ready 
and active. 

The English returned fire hastily and at random ; after losiui!; seven 
men killed and a dozen or more wounded, they very humbly with- 
drew, leaving the field to the militia. 

Samuel Hadlock was wounded in the right forefinger as ho fired 
from behind a tree, being the only American touched ; the tree was 
afterwards cut down and seventeen " king's arm" balls taken out. 

A few hours afterwards Benjamin Spurling was released, and the 
British ship-of-war weighed anchor and went on her way, but probably 
not rejoicing. 

The military organization in ISlt was :— Colonel Black of Ellsworth, 



M(>r>EllX inSTOUY AXn nEMlXISCEXCES. 31 

Ceiicrnl Conim.aiuler.— the ML Desert company of militia ollicered by 
"William Thorn. Capt., John Lear, 1st Lieut. 

Edeii company, John O. notchkiss, Capt. 

An independent eonipan}-, with Daniel Pepper, Capl. ; Samuel ILad- 
look, Lieut.; William Heat h, Ensijifu. 

The relics of HielxTltle are very few; Mrs. Catherine Heath of Seal 
Cove, (Treniont) has a six-pound cannon ball Avhich her husband, 
William Heath, Ensi<?n of the Independent Company, i^icked np^jj|ist 
after the battle ; some other shot were preserved at the time, bil^ho 
people considered the action quite insignificant, and they wpre *on 
forgotten or wasted. 

There are rpiite a number of persons living who were there — at Nor- 
wood's Cove — and they seem to remember, pretty well, what occurred, 
but their dates are so conllicting that it is necessary to go to the cal- 
ondar of 1814. by Avhich, the year began on Saturday, and August on 
Monday — the first Tuesday was the second day of the month, and the 
second Tuesday was the ninth ; they all agree that it was on Tuesdaj', 
and somewhat past the first of the month. Now, if any of the veter- 
ans are confounded with this statement^ (as probably many will read 
it), let them take the figures, as has been done in tnis case, and com- 
pare with the year. 

Insignificant as this may seem or be, the principle contended for was 
as great as the most brilliant achievement of the war, and the love of 
liberty swelled the hearts of these humble patriots as fervently- as it 
pulsed the minds of the "great men." All day the minute men, en- 
rolled or not, took their way by paths or boat, to the vicinity of Nor- 
wood's Cove and South West Harbor, either in company, squad, or 
alone, caring only to " defend themselves and their liberties," and 
prove themselves true to their first principle — American Independence. 
Young men who fought there, have lived to maintain their sentiments, 
and again renew their pledge to their country, by sending sons and 
grandsons to " do what they could" toward crushing the rebellion of 
the South, some of whom enriched with their bodies, and moistened 
with their blood the battle fields, and as the earth closed over their 
shattered frames, the old father caught back the changing spirit and 
held it out, a dying reproach to the faltering neighborhood. 



32 TOWN OF 3IT. BESERT. 



IP TO^VN OF MT. DESERT. 

Tlie Town of Mt. Desert covers about forty square miles, exclusive 
of Bartlett's Island, which contains about 1800 acres. The population 
in 1970 was 918. The amount of school money raised is $978. There 
are twelve school districts — one on Bartlett's Island. The principal 
business is lumbering, ship-building and farming-. The valuation of 
the town in 1871 was $118,884. "Wood and lumber is manufactured 
quite extensively. Ship building is carried on vigorously at Somes- 
ville; the yard of A. J. Whiting & Co. is in almost constant use, and 
tliat of George Somes nearly eveiy year. Tlie Woollen Factory of L. 
H. Somes, on the Somes' Stream, does considerable business. The 
people at Pretty Marsh farm and lumber,— at North East Harbor tarin 
and fish. Tlie village at the head of the Sound is the nucleus, active 
and honest — busy and fair.- 



TDWN OF EDEN. 

The Town of Eden took its name from the beauties of scei>ery among 
the forests in their primeval state. It was first settled in 1763. The 
'' act of incorporation " by the General Court of Massachusetts is dated 
February 22d, A. D., 1796. The warrant for the first town meeting, 
which was held at Salisbury's Cove, was served by Paul Dudley 
Jones. (The book which contains the first records has been taken 
from the Clerk's Oftice, a!\id we could not, as in other towns, quote the 
early proceedings.) The population of the town in 1870 was 1197. 
The valuation of the town in 1871 was $175,500. The amount of 
school money raised (1871) $1,250, with the interest on school fund 
which amounts to about $100— total $1,350. Number of school dis- 
15,— annual average attendance of scholars, 390. It covers about for- 
ty-eight square miles,— farming and lumbering principal business. 
Greatest scenery in the eastern part of the town. Hotels at Bar Har- 
oor. and steamboat communications and depot. 



TOM'X OF TIIKMONT. 33 



TOWX OF TRE3[0XT. 

State op Maixe. Ta the j'oar of our Lord, one Uiousaiu] ei<!,lit iiun- 

•Ired Jiiul forty-eight. 

'• An act to ineorporate tlie town of Mansel. Be it enacted by the 
Senate and Ilonse of Eepresentatives in Legislature assembled, as 
follows : — 

Section 1. All thnt part of the town of Mt. Desert in the Connty of 
Hancock, l.ving south of a line commencing at Andrew Fernald's north 
line on Somes' Sound; thence, across the mountain to the head of 
Deming's Pond ; thence, continuing the same course to Great Pond ; 
tlience across said pond to the south-east corner of lot munber 114, on 
a plan of said town by John S. Dodge, thence, westerly on the soutli 
line of said lot 114, to "SeiU "Crmr" Pond, and continuing the same 
course to the middle of said Pond; thence northerly up tiic middle of 
Upper Seal Cove Pond to the head thereof, and continuing the same 
course to the south line of lot marked "• Reuben Noble." on said plan ; 
tiience westerlj' on the south line of said last named lot, to tlie sea 
siiore, together with iloose Island. Gott's Island and Langley"s Island, 
witli the hihabitants tliercon, is hereby set oft" from said town of Mt. 
Desert, and incorporated into a separate town by the name of jMansel, 
and vested with all the powers, and privileges and innnuuities, and 
subject to all the duties and liabilities ot other incorporated towns, 
agreeable to the constitution and laws of this State, and is cla.ssed in 
the same Pepresentative District as its inhabitants now are. 

Section 2. Said town of Mansel shall be holden to pay the said 
town of Mt. Desert, such a proportion of the debts and liabilities of 
the said town of Mt. Desert, beyond their resources now existing, and 
which may hereafter arise in consequence of any and all suits at law 
now pending in favour or againsi; said town of Mt. Desert; and also 
to assume the support of siu-li proportion of all persons supported as 
permanent or occasional paupers of said town of Mt. Desert, as the last 
valution of that portion herebj' set oft', bears to the whole A'aluatioii of 
the town of Mt. Desert. 

Section G. Any Justice of the Peace within said County of Han- 
cock,, may issue his warrant to any legal voter residing in the town of 
]\Iansel, directing him to notify the inhabitants thereof, to mectt at ;i 
time and place specified in said warrant, for the choice of town oliicer.s 
and to transact such other business im. other towns are authpvized to 
do at their annual town meetings. - . 

5 



34 XOWN OP TRKMONT. 

Section 7. This act sliall take effect and be in force from and after 
its approval b}' tlie Governor, 

In the House of Eepresentatives, June 3, 1848. 
This bill having had three several readings, passed to be enacted. 
(Signed.) H. B. McLellan, Speaker. 

In the Senate, June 3, 1848. 
This bill having had two several readings, passed to be enacted. 

(Signed,) Caleb E. Ayer, President. 

June 5, 1848. Approved. 

(Signed,) John W. Dana, Governor. 

Secretary's Office, Augusta, Me., June 5, 1848. 
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original de- 
posited in this office. 

(Signed,) John G. Sawyer, 

Deputy Sec'y of State. 

Tremont, Dec. 4. 1848. 
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the original 
certiticate of said John G. Sawyer. 

(Signed,) John S. Dodge, 

Town Cleric of Tremont. 

The sections omitted above, three, four and five, are of minor im- 
portance, and would weary more than interest the reader. 

A warrant for the first town meeting was issued August 2, 1848, by 
Wilson Guptill, a ''Justice of the Peace" for Hancock County, to 
John Rich, a legal voter of the town of Mansel, to notifj- and warn 
the inhabitants of said town to meet on Wednesda}% tlie 9th day of 
August, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the red school-house in Bass 
Harbor, to choose all necessary town officers, adjust matters with Mt. 
Desert, and transact such other business as might legally come before 
the meeting. 

Pursuant to the warrant, Mr. Rich posted a notice at B. Benson, 
Jr.'s store, (Bass Harbor,) seven days before the meeting. 

At the time and place specified, the inhabitants met and were called 
to order by John Rich. Alfred Harper chosen Moderator, John S. 
Dodge, Town Clerk ; Shubal D. Norton, Seth H. Clark. John S. Dodge, 
Selectmen and Overseers of the poor; Bainiard Rummell, Town 
Treasurer; Rev. C. M. Brown, S. D. Norton, J. L. Martin, S. S. 
Committee; Eben Fernald, James R. Freeman, Edwin Kittredge, Jere- 
miah Moore, Joshua Eaton, Zebediah Rich, Eiias Rich, Ambrose 
Thurston, Wills Carver, Isaac M. Ober, Benj. Norwood, Samuel O. 
Harper, School Agents ; Enoch Lurvey, Andrew Tarr, Horace Dur. 
gan, John DoUiver, Joshua Eaton, Robert Rich, John M. Gott, John 
Murphj% Benj. Atherton, Jr., Benj. Norwood, Samuel O. Harper, 
Highway Surveyors; Wilson Guptill, David Hopkins, Eaton Clark, 
James Reed, Joseph Gott, Constables ; John Rich, Collector of Taxes ; 



TOWN OF TREMONT. 35 

Jolm F. Norwooil. John Eich, James Reed, Joseph Gott, Benj. Gilley, 
Fence Viewers ; William Heath, Eaton Clark, David Hopkins, Pound 
Keepers; Benj. Benson, Jr., Henry Clark, Abraham Richardson, Au- 
ditors of Accounts. 

Voted, That the annual town meeting be held oji the first Monday 
in Marcli. 

Thr; u^url amount of business which naturally occurs at such times 
was tiansact^ed. 

The name — Maasel, is the French for Mt. jDesert, or Mt. Mansel, as 
given by Governor AViuthrop. It was first adopted as the name of 
this town lathe incorpcratiou act, but it did not wholly suit the town- 
folks so, on a petition of C. M. Brown and his associates it was 
changed, by the same Legislature, to Tremont — the last name signify- 
ing, in latin, three mountains, which are in the limits of the town, 
namely. Western Mountain, Defile Mountain, and Dog Mountain. 

The population of Tremont in the last census was 1822 persons — as 
given by William N. Abbott, the census taker. The area is about for- 
ty-two square miles, or nearly one-third of the whole Island. The 
valuation of the town in 1871 was nearly half a million dollars. The 
number of polls was four hundred and twenty-six. There are fourteen 
school districts, (two graded — one at South West Harbor, Freeman 
Distiict, and one at West Bass Harbor,) with an annual attendance of 
four hundred and fifty scholars- The amount of school money raised 
in 1871 was about $1875, 



** 



36 CRANBERltr ISLES, 



CRANBERRY ISLES. 

•"Gems of the waters !— witli each hue 
Of brightness set in ocean blue. 
Each liears aloft its tufts of trees 
Touched by the pencil of the frost, 
And, witli'the motion of eacli breeze, 
A moment seen,— a moment lost,— 
Changing and blent, confused and tossed, 
The brighter witli the darker crossed, 
Their thousand tints of beauty glow 
Down in the restless waves below, 
And trembling in the sunny skies, 
As if, from waving bough to bough, 
Flitted the birds of Paradise."— Whillier, 

The Cranberry Isles are best seen from the summit of Green JMoun- 
tain. There they lie like hn<?e piles of sea- weed floatino- on the 
ocean. "Witli its harbors and road-steads, filled with vessels, it is pic- 
turesque indeed, — around the south shore the waves heave up — way up 
— fall over backwards and run down into tlie sea again, — gatlier 
.strenstiii rush on to tlie assault backed by tlie "Oceaii King of old." 

On the north shore the waters ijracefully How to the beach, and pass 
on their current way. To the south all is confusion and tiu-moil — to 
the north, harmony and peace. 

These islands are connected in history with Mt. Desert, though not 
especially spoken of until John Robertson settled on one of them, 
which is known as Robertson's Island. Williamson's history tells us, 
'' the inhabitants suffered much during the war of tlie revolution, both 
from tlie enemy and for necessaries." It must have been so, when the 
British occupied Castine, and persecuted all the Americans eastward, 
yet, to their cause, true as life, they chose every year a committee of 
correspondence, .«afety and inspection, which faithfully discharged 
every duty, working, not solely for the gain of these islands that 
gemmed the bay, but for the achievement of liberty for the whole con- 
tinent, and the bettering of their social relations. 

The third volume of the Massachusetts Historical Collection of 17G4, 
says : — " After the British troops had taken possession of Penobscot in 
1775, it was expected all the country eastward of it would have sub- 
mitted to their jurisdiction j yet, notwithstanding their proclamation, 



CRAS'lJKiniY ISLESi 57 

«.lciiuuneiny voiigeaiicc iu wise of refusul, tkc iii'liu'bUuiits ol" Miicliias, 
v,'itli most of the towns v/estward still adlieretl to tlieir country's 
cause, and continued on the ollcnsive to the close of the war.'' (The 
Cranberry Isles are so near related to Mt. Desert Isle, that in speakinp; 
of one. Historically, we moan both.) 

The militia was und'cr the yencral connuand and inlUicnce of Gener- 
al Campbell, who plnccKl Colonel Allen of 3fachias, iu command of the 
friendly Indians. 

The inhabitants of Cranberry Isles were always on the qui vive, and 
every approaching sail was A'i<^ilantly watched to see if the enemy 
were comin;^, as they often did to pillajj^e, and foi'aj?o, and threaten, 
and when one -did saiM in, the news was quickly dispatched to the oppo- 
site shore and spread over the Island) to warn peoi)le to be on their 
guard, and drive Ixick into th-e forests their stock. 

The settlement of the Island be<?an the same year with Mt. Desert^ 
at SomeSville, by Abraham Somes. 

The " Act of Iiicoi-poratiou " bears date of Murcli l(!th, 1S30. It 
W41S incorporated by the General Court of Maine, and embraces Gr&at 
and Little Cranberry Isles, Buttons Isle, Bakers Isle, and Bear Isle. 
The population of the town in the last census was 351 persons. 
The area of the whole town is 1140 acres: — Great Cranberry. 850, 
Little Cranberry 350, Buttons 200, Bakers 90, Bear 50. There is a 
meadow or heath on the Great Island which measures 200 acres and is 
unoccupied save by fro<;s and rushes. The cost of dr».inai,^e would be 
enormous, if, indeed, it could be drained at all, as it is on the level of 
the ocean. There are five school districts in town, two on the Great 
Isle, and one on the Little Isle, and one on Snttons Isle, and one on 
Bakers Isle. The valuation of the town assessed in 1871 was 65,000 
dollars; lost during the year by shipping seven thousand dollars, of 
which, W. P. & W. IL_ Preble lost nearly four thousand dollars. The 
general busines.?"of the isTantTT'is fishing, there are somewhere about 
fifteen smoking houses for curing herring— and they contain from 
S,000 to 800 boxes each — the herring are taken round the shores by 
net, and are a little larger than those taken by wier, and not so large 
^is the Magdalen herring. 

We present the general appearance of the Islands as they appeared 
to us on a recent visit there. Landing on the shore of the Great Isle, 
at Pxe'Jle's wharf, we first suw the stand of fish— houses— tlakes and 
barrels — ready to receive the deep vSea fish — cod, hake and haddock, 
the smoke house and box shed, tubs and fishing gear. Then, up 
through a large pretty field, to the Preble House. This Hotel is neatly 
finished, and elegantly furnished, and ornaments the Island. A road, 
from the upper to the lower end of the island, built along by pretty 
cottage houses, and an approach of gardens, laid round Avith eveu 
fields and farmed patches. Down to the pool, which is formed by a 



38 CRANBERRY ISLES. 

hook like point of land, boats and fish-houses appeared again. 

Holdeu & Richardson are doing business at the pool. They have a 
store well stocked, with such goods and wares as are usually found in 
a country sea-port store, — outfits for the fishermen — they maintain a 
smoke-house, buy and cure all kinds of fish. 

On the Little Isle, which lies a mile East of the Great Isle, is the fish 
yard of W. E. & G. Hadlock. They send their own vessels to the 
banks, and such other places as will further their business, buy and 
cure with their own, those of the boat fishermen, which employs quite a 
lot of men. Their " business " is the largest of the kind carried on 
" Down among the Islaads." 

Sations. Bear, and Bakers Isles form a part of the same business as 
the G'-eat and Little Isles. There are two light-houses— one on 
Baker's Isle and one on Bear Isle, which guide into a safe harbor, or 
along the coast. 

" Lonely coast-lighi, set 
^Vi.liiji its wave washed minaret." 

In leaving the Cranberry Isles, we here tender our thanks to W. H. 
Preble for the assistance he so ably rendered, and to the Preble House 
for its kindness. 

The first town or organization meeting, was called by a warrant 
issued by Aaron Wasgatt, Esq., Justice of the Peace, on application 
of Enoch Spurting and als., and held on the Great Island. 
The first election made : — 

Samuel Hadlock, ^ 

Enoch Spurling, > Selectmen. 

Joseph Moore, ) 

Enoch Spurling, Clerk. 



GOTT'S ISLTND. ' 39 



GOTT'S ISLAND. 

In 1789, the General Court of tlie comnionw ealtli of Massachusetts, 
empowered a committee of three pei-sons, consisthig' of Samuel 
Phillips, Jr., John Eeed, and Leonard Jaro, to sell the land in the 
counties of Cumberland, York, and Lincoln, not already appropriated. 

Daniel Gott of Mt. Desert, obtained a deed from this committee, 
dated March 23th, 1870 whicli conveyed to him for and in considera- 
tion of the sum of eighteen pounds legr.l money, two small islands 
described as little Plasentia Island, measuiing 222 3-1 acres, and Bar 
Island, measurin*^ S3 1-1 acres, situated in the Lincoln County. The 
deed was aclcnowled^-ed before Samuel Cooper, Justice of the Peace, 
and recorded in the Lincoln County Eegistry of deeds, Au<iust 7tli, 
1789, Lib. 23, Vol. 246, by A. W. T. Eice, Tte<>:ister. 

Mr. Gott occupied until his death, July 7th, 1814 the larg-er mentioned 
island, from which, the name it now bears was derived. 

The Island is now occupied by ten families, comprising a school 
district of Tremont, — aifording' convenience for rishing', wiering and 
farming, which is most thoroughly and vigorously improved. 

Prior to 1789, Little Plasentia was transiently occupied, but no 
homestead made. *~*~ ^— — — > 

In 1742 it was inhabited by Indians, and an incident of that date 
may amuse some who will follow these lines : — 

Some parties belonging in Boston had bought land with water priv- 
ileges at Machias, and had lumber mills in operation, with a quantity 
of men employed there. A small coaster was kept plying between 
these two ports, conveying lumber, and supplying the employees with 
provisions. On one of her down trips, the vessel, well laden with "all 
such," run ashore on a shoal of the bar, which makes between the Is- 
land and Bass Harbor, at half ebb tide. The deck of the vessel was 
soon crowded with dusky neiglibors ; the chief taking command said : 
"Ugh, all one Injun vessel now!" 

" Yes, said the captain, all one Injun rum, too." 

" L^gh, rum! " said the chief; " me have much rum ashore." 

The crew set about lively getting a barrel of "fire water" ashore 
for the feathered, top-knotted jaw-jaws, and in a little while the whole 
tribe were leaping and yelling in the wildest manner round the "festive 
hoard " a green corn dance. 



40 COTT'S ISrANI>. 

At luid-iiisilit, quite another scene painted tlie island, for "' sileiiee 
I'eii^nc'd piolbund." At tlie coming of the tide, the vessel tloated, 
Avhile a Stirling land breeze fainied her out to sea. Sometime in the 
mominy tlie chief awoke, and after sni-ve3inii' iiis charo^e exelainieU: — 

'■'■ All ii-one vessel ! all "one rum ! Indian he no yood ! " 



(iENERAT. EEMAEKSv 

The schools of Mt. Desert rank above the average of comnio/j 
schools, and the school houses are the best in th"e county ; the school 
house at East Bass Harbor is the largest of the kind in the county, 
— there are more new than old ones on the Island, indeed, there are 
but one or two real old ones, and they will very soon give way to new 
ones, — many of the houses have halls in the upper stor\^ some of 
which are used by the graded schools. The Island furnishes its own 
— regular trained--teachers — mostly, and some are called to teach in 
larger or higher schools in other places. The annual average attend- 
ance to all the schools on the Island is more than one thousand, and 
enough money is carried away by students to other schools to form 
and support one of the highest order on the Island, and still maintain 
their reputation as teachers. 

In reviewing the work before ns, we see many discrepancies, valleys 
and hills. The ancient history we have condensed from Williamson, 
De Costa, Heune and Bancroft, — the modern history and reminiscences 
from local records and tradition, — the bnsiness we have gathered by 
the assistance of ditierent persons and believe it to be nearly' perfect. 
The topography is from tlie work of H. F. Walling, — the scenery is 
from pei-sonal observations, and is sulnnitted, '\\'ith the whole, for such 
corrections as more able resources may develoj), or present mistakes 
demand. 

To show the gain of the Island in ten j'cars, we give the census of 
IBGO here :— 

C'ranberry Isle, 

Eden, 

]\lt. Desert, 

Tremont, 

Total gain, ll. 



347, 


gain 


4 


I24(i, 


loss 


49 


910, 


gain 


.) 


arcs, 


gain 


W 



Tlio valnatinn of the towns lius increased at a ^'ood interest — in "Mt. 
Desert and Tremont by shipping- and Jisliinp,', and in Eden b}- bniUlini:,- 
and improved farming. 

Some of the inhabitants still clin^■ to the opinion that mone\- lies bnr- 
ried over the Island somewhere, especially along" the shore, and that 
diligent search might unfold it, — that the mountains ai'e immeiise 
treasure houses of gold and silver, — that the fields are a covering to 
slate and marble beds, — that the forests hide gold mhies, and that 
granite is as abundant as the earth itself, '• if they only knew it.'' 

That Mt. Desert is to be a great " watering-place and resort," no 
one doubts. — every summer brings new comers, and none leave with- 
out a desire to re-visit. The liotels filled everj^ year, faster even than 
they build, but the private residences are always opeu to accommodate. 
Bar Harbor and South West Harbor are at present the most con- 
spicuous places, but it is probable, that when the roads are completed 
to the top of the other mountains, the company will How that 
way. 

The firms advertising in this book are selected, and are all first class. 
Some will need no references as their reputation has placed them be- 
yond inquiry. The people on the Island are generous and hospitable, 
and of the true yankee blood "ready for a trade."' 

The religions are Evangelical and Christian, and the churches well 

supported. The Island has been well represented abroad; among its 

moral standard bearers was the late Bishop Davis \Yasgatt Clark. 

"An island, full of hills and dells, 
All rumpled and uneven 
AV'illi green recesses, sudden Swells, 
And odorous valleys driven 
So deep and straiifiit, tliat always tliei'e 
The wind is cradled to sol't my .^^—Sro>f»i /iff . 

Tinker's Island, which belongs to Tremont, is a "gem of the bay " 
with green roads arched over by big birch trees. A visitor is always 
welcome at Capt. Tinkers^ Truly &c., Auxiiou. 

Tremont, Jul^Hlsn. 



G 



MT. DESERT BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 



Koscoe G. Salisbury, 
John Somes, 



Benj. F. AVade, 



E. C. rarker, 
Elisha Wasgatt, 
Geo, W. Hayiies, 
^Vm. Callihau, 



John Conners, 
Lewis Somes, 
Lewis Somes, Jr., 
Benj. D. Baker, 



Insurance Agents. 

Somesville, 



Artists. 

Somcsville, 

Blacksmiths. 

Somesville, 

Bartletts Isle, 
Long- Pond, 

Boot & Shoe Makers. 

Somesville, 

ii 

Beach Ilill, 



Carpenters, &. House Builders. 



John U. Parker, 
S. P. PJchardson, 
H. S. Seavev, 
B. T. Atlierton. 
Geor^ii:e S. Parker, 
Josepli Southard, 



Somesville, 



N. E. Harbor, 



Mt. Desert. 



Mt. Desert. 

Mt. Desert. 
N. E. Harbor. 

Mt. Desert. 

(I 

it 
Mt. Desert. 

u 
u 

]S\ E. Harbor. 



MT. DESERT r.rSIXESS DIUECTOKV. 



43 



^'illllfN. 

UJiiou Cluu-ch, 



J. D. i'lirkcr, 



Churches. 

Somcsville, 

Civil Engineers & Surveyors. 

Somesville, 



Clergymen. 

E. R. Osgood, Somcsville, 

Cloth Dressers & Finishers. 

Lymau TI. Somes, Somcsville, 



A. J. Whiting & Co., 
J. llamor & Co., 
Nash Brothers, 
Green G. Stevens, 
L.J. lliggins, 
Daniel Kimball, 
Stephen S<"itharcl, 
Charles liaymond. 



Kate Stevens, 
Adelma F. Somes, 
Cyntlia H. Smith, 
C. Moore. 
Lucretia S. Bartlett, 



L. II. Somes, 



E. E. Babson, 
Geo. B. Somes, 
R. L. Somes, 
Giles 11. Sargent, 
Samuel Gilpjitrick, 
Thomas Manchester, 
Sans Whitmore, 
Thomas A. "Wasgatt, 
J. & H. Bartlett, 

F. Salsbury, 
Decatur Dawes. 



Country Stores. 

Somcsville, 



N. E. Harbor, 
Long I'ond, 
Bartlctts Isle, 

Dress Makers. 

Somcsville, 

(I 

i; 

Bartlctts Isle, 

Woolen Factories. 

Somcsville, 

Herring Fish Curers. 

Somesville, 

N. E. Harbor, 

Bartlctts Isle, 
Pretty 3Iarsh. 



Mt. Desert. 



Mt. Desert. 
Mt. Desert. 
Mt. Desert. 

Mt. Desert. 

u 

u 

N. E. Harbor. 
Mt. Desert. 

Mt. Desert. 

lb 
it. 

Mt. Desert. 
Mt. Desert. 

Mt. Desert- 
N. E. Harbor. 

;i 
(I 

Mt. Desert. 



44 



Masonic Hall, 



MX. iJLliEUT IJUSINESS DIUKCTOrtY. 

Halls, 

Somesvillc, 



Hotels. 

Ml. Desert House, D. Seines, SoniesvlUc, 



Daniel Somes, 
.T. D. Parker, 
B. T. Atherton, 
John H. Tarker, 
Daniel Kimball, 



Justices of the Peace. 

Somes ville, 

a 
(; 

N. E. Harbor, 



John Somes, 
Jolm W. Somes, 
John J. Somes, 
Thaddens S. Somes, 
A. J. Whiting, 
Daniel Somes, 
George B. Somes, 
1\. L. Somes, 
Cousins, Higg'ius & Co., 



Isaac Hutchinson, 



Grist & Saw Mill. 
Shingle & Box Mill, 
Steam Mill, 
Saw Mill, 



Lumber Dealers. 

Somcsville, 



Kate Stevens, 
A. F. Somes, 



F. Grindle, 
J. D. Parker, 



Robert L. Grindle, 
Itufus Grindle, 



Town Hill, 

Stone Masons. 

Somesvillc, 

Mills. 

Somcsville, 
Cross IJoad, 
Great Pond, 
Head Sound, 

Milliners. 

Somcsville, 

Music Teachers. 

Somcsville, 

Notary Public. 

Somcsville, 

Physicians. 

Somcsville, 



Mt. Desert. 



Mt. Desert. 



Mt. Desert. 



N. E. Harbor. 



Mt. Desert. 



West Eden. 



Mt. Desert. 



Mt. Desert. 



3It. Desert. 



Mt. Desert. 



Mt. Dcsei-t. 



Mt. Desert. 



IVaiiirs. 



1st, Office, 
2d, 



Joii.ithan Ilamor, 
B. F. Kobcrts, 



John W. SoaiiCS, 
T. S. Somes, 
J. J. Somes, 
A. J. Whiting, 



MT. DESERT BUSINESS DIRECTOUY. 

Post Offices. 

Hc'.«i<lt>uci". 

Somesville. 
N. E. Harbor, 

Post IVIasters. 

Somesville, 
N. E. Harbor, 

Ship Builders. 

Somesville, 



45 



Wra. P. Smith, 
Benj. F. Leland, 
^Vl\\. Kecd, 
Hugh Kichardson, 
H. A. Keniston, 



John n. Parker, 
II. S. Seavey, 
S. P. liichardson, 
Joseph Southard, 



in A. J. Whitings Store, 
Operator R. G.'Salsbury, 



M. D. Stevins, 
L. H. Somes, 



Ship Carpenters. 

Somesville, 

Oak Hill, 

u 

Pretty Marsh, 

Ship Joiners. 

Somesville, 

u 
u 

Long Pond, 
Telegraph Office, 

Somesville, 

Tinsmiths. 

Somesville, 

Wool Carders. 

Somesville, 



p. O. Ailrtresii. 

]Mt. Desert. 
N. E. Harbor. 



Mt. Desert. 
N. E. Harbor. 



Mt. Desert. 



Mt. Desert. 



Mt. Desert. 

u 

N. E. Harbor. 

Mt. Desert. 
Mt. Desert. 
Mt. Desert. 



EDEN BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 



Insurance Agents. 



MaiiicM. 


ICcKitleiico. 


r. O. A«1«1ri>s9. 


Leonard J. Thomas, 


Eden, 

Blacksmiths. 


Eden. 


Daniel "\V. Brewer, 
Albert F. Iligjiins, 
Samuel H. Eichards, 
John S. Salisbury, 
Oliver P. Thomas, 


Huirs Cove, 

Bar Harbor, 

Eden, 

Bar Harbor, 

Eden, 

Boat Builders. 


Salis'y's Cove. 
East "Eden. 
Eden. 
East Eden, 
Eden. 


Simeon H. Eichards, 


Eden, 

Boot & Shoe IVIakers. 


Eden. 


John Waso-att, 
Daniel Ladd, 


Eden, 
West Eden, 


Eden. 
West Eden. 



George Einalda, 



Samuel N. Emery, 
Hosie 11. Hamor," 



Calkers &. Gravers. 

Salisbury's Cove, Salis'y's Cove. 

Carpenters &. House Builders. 

Salisbury's Cove, Salis'y's Cove. 



EDEN BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 



47 



Carpenters &. .House Builders, (Coutinued.) 



]Vaiiivt(. 



Lewis Hiijcrins, 
Buiicrort \V. Thomas, 
Geor^-e W. llichards, 
Albert Iladley, 
John S. Lyman, 



Baptist Church, 



Frederick Wilcoiub, 
Henry AVilcoinb, 
Edward Yoiuiy, 



EbenW. Hamor, 
B. C. Thomas, 
L. J. Thomas, 
I'eleii" Youno-, 
Joseph W. SVood, 
T. L. Roberts, 
Edward Desisle, 
K. Kittredge, 



Youngs Hall, 
Sewing Circle Hall, 



I8«'.si«lt'i»c»'. 

Bar Harbor, 
Eden, 

West Eden, 
East Eden, 

Churches. 

Eden, 

Coopers. 

Salisbury's Cove, 
Eden, 
Salisbury's Cove, 

Country Stores. 

West Eden, 
Eden, 

Salisbury's Cove, 

East Eden, 
Bar Harbor, 



Halls. 

Salisbury's Cove. 
AVest Edeu. 

Hotels. 



Mountain House, 

Carpenter & Brewer, Prop'rs, Summit Green Mt., 

Agamont House, 

Tobias Roberts, Proprietor, Bar Harbor, 

Atlantic House, 

J. 11. Douglas, Proprietor, '■' " 

Bay View House, 

Hanior & Co., Proprietors, " " 

Deering House, 

Chas. Higgins, Proprietor, " '•' 

Eden House, 

Ash Brothers, Proprietors, " " 

Hanior House, 

James Hamor, Proprietor, " '• 

Harbor House, 

A. F. Higgins, Proprietor, " " 

Kebo House, 

A. J. Mills, Proprietor, ' '• " 



p. O. A«1«li-cs(*. 

East Eden. 
Edeu. 

West Eden. 
East Eden. 



Eden. 



Salis'y's Cove. 
Eden. 
Salis'y's Cove. 



West Eden. 
Eden. 

Salis'y's Cove. 

East Eden. 



Eden. 




East Eden 























48 



KPEN F.USINF.SS DIRECTORY, 



Hotels, (Continued.) 



IVauicM. 



Il('!«i«l«n«;«. 



Newport Uouse, 

M. L. Roberts, Proprietor, Bar Harbor, 

Iloclvaway House. 

T. L. Roberts, ' " " 

Kodiclv House, 

D. Rodick, Proprietor, " " 

bt. Saiiveur House, 

Fred A. Allcj^, Proprietor, " '' 

Way Side Inu, 

R. G. Hig-<>'ins, Proprietor, " " 

Ocean House, 

fSaniuel Higgiiis, Proprietor, " " 



L. J. Thomas, 
E. M. Hamor, 



Western House, 
Eastern House, 



Setli Hardin,2;, 
Enimous Pra^-, 
J. H. Mayo, 
Alex Higiifins, 
Atwater Higgins, 
Alfred Mayo, 
J. Ricliardson, 
J. Salisbury, 
Uriah Goodi-id<^e, 
Fred Leland, 
W. Leland, 
Otis Brewer, 



David Leland, 
Otis Leland, 



Justices of the Peace. 

Eden. 
West Eden, 

Meeting Houses- 
Eden, 

East Eden, 

Builders & Ship Carpenters. 

West Eden, 



Eden. 

Bar Harbor, 

Salisbury's Cove, 

Eden, 
Hulls Cove, 

Masons & Plasterers. 

Eden, 



P. O. 7t.«l4lre*«»<i. 

East Eden. 



II. a 



Eden. 
West Eden. 



Eden. 



West Eden. 



Eden. 
East Eden, 
Salis'y's Cove. 

Eden. 
Salis^y's Cove. 



Eden. 



J. B. Hadley's, 
Hi.i>-f;ins & Emery's, 
Page & Co.'s, 



Eden, 
West Eden, 
Salisbury's Cove, 
East Eden, 



IVIlllS. 
Eden, 

Salisbury's Cove, 

Post Offices. 

Eden, 
West Eden, 
Salislinry's Cove. 
Bar Harbor, 



Eden, 
Salisb'y's Cove. 



Eden. 

West Eden. 
S.11is\y's Cove. 
East Eden. 



EDEN P.USIXKSS DIRECTOKY. 



49 



L. J. Thomas. 
\Vm. T. Thomas, 
Uriali Goodrklije, 
T.L.Roberts.' 



Post Masters. 

Eden, 
West Eden, 
Salis1)iiry's Cove, 
Bar Harbor, 



I*. O. A«I<{ro«s. 

Eden. 

West Eden. 
Salis'y's Cove. 
East Eden. 



Surveyors of Wood, Lumber & Bark. 



Eben M. Hamor, 
Alex Hiifgins, 



Telegraph Operator, 
Miss S. B. Reynolds, 



Gideon Mayo, 
Edgar W. Higgins. 
Bloomfield Higgins, 
Alonzo Higgins, 
Sidelia Mayo, 
Judith Thomas, 
Lizzie Wasgatt, 



West Eden, 

Telegraph Office, 

Bar Harbor, 
Teachers. 

West Eden, 



EdeQ, 
West Eden, 

Bar Harbor, 



West Eden. 



East Eden. 



West Eden. 



Eden. 

West Eden. 

Id a 

East Eden. 



TREIVSONT BUSINESS D^ECTORY. 





Insurance Agents, 




IVaiiicH. 


lS(>!>iill4>IICC 


1». O. A4lfIr4>S8. 


Abraham Eicliai 
E. H. Dodge, 
H. H. Clark, 


dson, Bass Harbor, 
S. W. Harbor, 
Nursery Agent. 


Tremont. 

S. W. Harbor 


James Clark, 


Goose Cove, 
Steamboat Agent. 


Tremont. 


Henry Clark, 


S. W. nar])or. 


S. W. Harbor. 


H. n. Clark, 


Express Agent. 

S. W. Harbor, 

Sewing IVIaohine Agent. 


S. ^y. Harbor. 


Thomas Clark, 


Goose Cove, 
Auctioneer. 


Tremont. 


Benj. Benson, 


Bass Harbor, 
Blacksmiths. 


Tremont. 


J. E. Freeman, 
W. H. Rae, 
Benj. Eobbins, 
Anam Ober, 
John 0. Eich, 
Frank Yoving, 
John Young, 
George Kellay, 


S. W. Harbor, 
Centre, 

Bass Harbor, 

Goose Cove, 

(. (.1. 

Cross Eoad, 


S. W. Harbor. 
Seal Cove. 

u u 

Tremont. 
Tremont. 

u 

Seal Covo. 



TKEMOXT 1;LSI\KSS DIKECTOllY. 



51 



A. K. P. Lunf s 
David Clark, 



Eaton Clark, 
Amos B. Xewmau, 
AViii. Gilley, 
Beiij. Xewiuan, 
^\m. Clhikard, 



Robert Ash, 
'^VIn. Lawler, 
J. G. U'ilsou, 



S. II. Clark's, 



James Newbui'y, 
Trestoii A. Kicii, 
J. G. Wilson, 
Wm. Herriek, 
"Wm. II. Clinkard, 
Matthf w Sewart, 
Ira Reed, 
James Ivellay, 



James A. Peckliam, 
Jacob Sawj-er, 
James L. Wilson, 
Wilson Guptil, 
Levi Tviu'vey, 
Wans Stanley, 
.Jolm D. Lnrvey, 
.Samuel Lurvey, 
J. T. Clark, 
Wm. A. Clark, 
Reuben Murphy, 
David Clark, 
Jonathan Norwood, 
Josepli M. Kellay, 
N. 1). Kellay, 
Josiah Swett, 



Boarding Houses. 

Goose Cove, 
Centre, 

Boat Buiiders. 

Bass Harbor, 
S. W. Harbor, 
Centre, 

Boot &. Shoe Makers. 

S. W. Harbor, 
Norwoods Cove, 
Bass Harbor, 

Bowling Alley. 

S.W. Harbor, 

Calkers &. Gravers. 

Bass Harbor, 



S. W. Harbor, 
Centre, 
Cape District, 

Goose Cove, 

Carpenters & House Joiners. 

Bass Harbor 



S. AV. Harbor, 



Nor-\\oods Cove, 
Goose Cove, 



Centre. 
Cross Road, 
Goose Cove, 

Seal Cove, 



1». O. A(I<!i'e«s. 

Tremont. 
Seal Cove. 



Tremont. 

S. W. Harbor, 

Seal Cove. 

S. W. Harbor, 
Tremont. 

S. W. Harbor. 
Tremont. 



S. W. Harbor. 
Seal Cove. 



Tremont. 
Tremont, 

(; 
i; 

S. IV. Harbor. 

u u 

Tremont. 
Seal Cove. 
Seal Cove. 



52 



TKK3IOKT IJUSIXESS DIUKCTOUY, 





Churches. 




IVuniPt). 


Ite«i«Ieuce. 


r. O. Atltliess. 


Cono^reffational, 


Treniout, 


Tremont, 


JMutiioclist, 


"• 


•• 


Eaptist, 


'^ 


(I 


II. C. Association, 


(i 


a 


Ci 


vil Engineers & Surveyors. 




Levi B. Wyman, 


Seal Cove, 


Seal Cove. 


W. W. A. Heath, 


Clergymen. 


a a 


J, A. L. RIcli, Methodist, ISTorwoods Cove, 


S. W. Harbor. 




Coopers. 




Myrtle Jolmson, 


Bass Harbor, 


Tremont. 


Keubcn F, Keciie, 


S. ^y. Harbor, 

Country Stores. 


S. W. Harbor. 


S. A. Iloklcii, & Co., 


Bass Harbor, 


Tremont. 


C. M. Hoklen, ct Co. 


5 


ik 


O. M. Kittrcdge, 


(1 a 


ii 


Benj. Benson, 


<l u 


({ 


Daniel Cougli, 


u u 


it 


Thomas Clark, 


Goose Cove, 


a 


is^^ 


Seal Cove, 


Seal Cove. 


S. H. llobbins. 


Centre, 


a 


Reuben F. Keene, 


S. W. Harbor, 


S. W. Harbor. 


H. J. Anderson, 


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• k Ik 


J, W. Freeman, 


(> ii 


kk ;( 


Clark & Parker, 


Deputy Sheriff. 


kk kk 


Jacob Sawyer, 


Bass Harbor, 

U. S. Deputy Collector. 


Tremont. 


D. P. Marceys, 


S. W. Harbor, 

Express Office. 


S. W. Harbor. 


Eastern Ollicc, 


S. W. Harbor, 
Cod Fish Curers. 




David Kiiifj, 


S. W. Harbor, 


S. W. Harbor. 


W. II. Ward, 


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TKEMOXr BUSINESS DIljEUTORY. 



53 



STanies. 

S. H. Clark, 
H. H. Clark, 
Clark &. Parker, 
Eaton Clark, 
8. A. Holdeu, 
Kae. Baldwin, & Rich, 
Heed & Athertou, 
T. C. Dow, 



Lobster Factorj^ 

AVui. Underwood, & Co., 



Herring. 

Iteiiiiilettce. 

S. W. Harbor, 

i; u 

Bass Harbor, 

Gotts Island, 
Moose Island, 
Cape District, 

Factories. 

S. ^Y. Harbor, 
G7 Broad «t. 



P. O. Atldress. 

S. W. Harbor. 

ii u 

Tremont. 



Seal Cove- 



Boston Mass. 



Union Hall, 

Hall, 

Lopaus Hall, 



Island House, 

H. H. Clark, JProprietor, 

Freeman House, 

J. K. Freeman, Proprietor, 

Ocean House, 

N. Teague, Proprietor, 



Halls. 

E. Bass Harbor, 
S. W. Harbor, 
Goose Cove, 

Hotels. 



S. W. Harbor, 



U. S, Inspector. 



Tremont. 



S. W. Harbor. 



S. A. Holden, 


Bass Harbor, 

Justices of the Peace, 


Tremont. 


L. B. Wyuian, 
W. W. A. Heath, 
Benj. Sawyer, 
A. Richardson, 

C. M. Holden, 
Wilson Guptil, 
H. H. Clark, 

D. P. Marceys, 


Seal Cove, 

u a 

Bass Harbor, 

u u 

S. W. Harbor, 

Circulating Library. 


Seal Cove. 
Tremont. 

a u 

S. W. Harbor 

u 1.; 


West Bass Harbor, 


Bass Harbor, 

Meeting Houses. 


Tremont. 


Union House, 


S. W. Harbor. 
Centre. 


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54 



TKEJIOXT BUSINESS DIRECTORY, 



John M. Gott, 
A, T. Gott, 
David Gott, 
James Ober, 
Aram Ober, 



Reuben Billiiif^s, 
Seth H. Iliggius, 
Fi'auk young, 



W. W. A. Heath, 



Eaton Clark, 



E. P. Dodgo, 
W. E. Chirk. 



EUa M. Kittrecls-c, 
II. M. Gott, 
Hannah Gilley, 



Nathan Stanle3% 
T. E. O. Dodge, 
Walter Stanley, 



^Vln. A. Spear, 



Bass Harbor, 
Eaton Clark, P. M. 
Seal Cove, 
James Flye, P. M. 
S. W. Harbor, 
J. T. Iv. Freeman, P. 



Janus Tinker. 



Albci-t Bartlctt. 



Masons &. Plasterers. 

ISeMitls'lico. 

Goose Cove, 



Centre, 
Stone IVIasons. 

S. W. Harbor, 
Goose Cove, 

Saw and Grist IVlills. 

Seal Cove, 

Shingle & Lath. 

Cross Eoacl, 

IVlillmen. 

Seal Cove, 
Bass Harbor, 

iVIiiliners. 

Ba>;s Harbor, 
S. W. Harbor, 

Painters. 

Norwoods Cove, 

Physicians. 

Bass Harbor, 

Post Offices. 

Bass Harbor, 
Seal Cove, 
M. S. W. Harbor, 

Rigger. 

Goose Covj, 
Sail Maker. 

S. W. Harbor, 



IP". ®. A<l«li'e«s. 

Tremont. 

Seal Cove. 



S. W. Harbor. 

U I. 

Tremont, 
Seal Cove. 



Tremont. 



Seal Cove. 
Tremont. 



Tremont. 

S. ^\. Harbor. 

S. W. Harbor. 

I. 

Tremont. 

Tremont. 
Seal Cove. 
S. W. Harbor. 

Tremont. 
S. W. Hijrbor 



TIIEMONT nUSiXlCSS DIUECTOUY. 



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ZVaiiaos. 



Ship Carpenters— IVlasters. 



ITeniy E. Xewraaii, 
Yfiu. S. Xowmau, 
Samuel iSTewiuaii, 



C. M. noUleii, & Co., 
S. A. Hoklen,& Co., 
A. Eicluirdson, 
Hiram Fl3e, 
H. II. Clark, 
A. Ilaj'iies, 



Daniel Eaton, 
W. P. Sawyer, 
A. B. Newman, 
J. F. Xorwood, 
Eaton Clark, 
M. P. Eich, 
Elias Rich, 
J. P. Pich, 
Jonathan Pich, 
Joseph M. Gott, 
Otis W. Morey, 
Benj. Sawyer, 
John Moore, 



James L. Wilson, 
J. A. Pockham, 
J. T. Clark, 

Sans Stanley, 



Isaajc Gott, 
James Powers, 



S. W. Harbor, 

(( I. 

Ship Contractors. 

Bass Harbor, 

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Seal Cove. 
S. W. Harbor, 

Ship Carpenters. 

Bass Harbor, 

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i; (.(. 

Duck Cove, 



Goose Cove, 
Seal Cove, 

S. W. Harbor, 

Ship Joiners. 

Bass Harbor, 

Goose Cove, 
S. W. Harbor, 

Traders. 

Bass Harbor, 
Seal Cove, 

Telegraph Offices. 



!RIissA. M.IIolden, Operator, Island House, 
Miss Victoria Marce3^s, '' S. "VV. Harbor, 



S. W. Harbor. 



Tremont. 



Seal Cove. 
S. "\V. Harbor, 



Tremont. 



Seal Cove. 
S. W. Harbor. 

Tremont. 

S. W. Harbor. 



Tremont. 
Seal Cove. 



S. W. Harbor. 



Josiah Swett, 



Turner. 

Seal Cove, 



Seal Cove. 



CRANBERRY ISLE BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 



IVainca. 



Insurance Agents. 

Resilience. 



Wm. P. & Wm. n. Preble, Great Island, 
A. C. Fernakl, Sutton's Island, 

Auctioneer. 

Wm. P. & Wm. II. Preble, Great Island, 



Henry Fernald, 



Preble House, 



Blacksmiths. 

Great Island, 

Boarding House &. Hotel. 



p. O. Address. 

Cran. Isle. 

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Cran. Isle. 



Cran. Isle. 



Wm. P. Preble, Pi 


oprietor. Great Island, 
Boat Builders. 


Cran. 


Isle 


Enoch Spurling', 
E. B. Stanley, 


Great Island, 
Carpenters &. Joiners. 


Cran. 

u 


Isle 


Edward Brewer, 
Henry Fernald, 
Enoch Spurlhiff, 
Amos Howard, 
E. R. Richardson, 


Great Island, 

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Sutton's Island, 


Cran. 

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Isle 

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CKANBERRY ISLK liUSINlLSS DIUECTOKY. 57 



Union, 


Church* 

Great Island, 

Coffin Manufacturers. 


JP. O. A«l«lr<'ss 

Cran, Isle. 


A. C. Fernakl, 


Sutton's Island, 


Cran. Isle. 


Moor & Fernakl, 


Coopers. 

Sutton's Island, 
Deputy Sheriffs. 


Cran. Isle. 


Wm. P. Preble, 
B. H. Sparling-, 


Great Island, 


Cran. Isle. 



Fish Curers and Dealers. Oil. 

W. E. & G. Hadlock, Little Island, Cran. Isle. 

Wm. P. & W. II. Preble, Great Island, '' " 

Hall. 

Hadlocks Hall, 



W. E. & G. Hadlock, 


Prop'r, Little Island, 
Fish Inspector. 


Cran 


Isle. 


A. C. Fernakl, 


, Sutton's Island, 
Master Ship Builder. 


Cran. 


Isle. 


E. E. Eicliardson, 


Sntton's Isle, 

Merchants. 


Cran 


Isle. 


Holden & Richardson, 


Great Island, 


Cran. 


Isle. 


W. P. & W. II. Preble 




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W. E. & G. Hadlock, 


Little Island, 

Music Teacher. 


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Miss Fannie A. Preble 


Great Island, 
Notary Public. 


Cran. 


Isle. 


W. P. Preble, 


Great Island, 


Cran. 


Isle. 


A. C. Fernakl, 


Sutton's Island, 


ii. 


(I 


Post Office & Post Master. 






Joseph S. Spurling, 


Great Island, 

Sail Maker. 


Cran. 


Isle. 


James A Morris, 


Little Island, 


Cran. 
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Isle. 



58 CRANP.EIIRY ISLE BUSIXKSS DIUECTOKY. 

Surveyors of Wood, Lumber & Bark. 

W. p. Preble, Great Island, Cran, Isle. 

L. H. Bray, " 

A. C. Feruald, Sutton's Island, " " 

Justices of the Peace* 

W. p. Preble, Great Island, Cran. Isle. 

W.H.Preble, '' " " " 

G. T. Iladlock, Little Island, " " 

A. C. Feruald, Sutton's Island, " " 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 



VIA MT. DESEK.T, 



Will Leave BELFAST every TUESDAY, THURSDxVY and SATUR- 
day, on arrival of the Steamers Cambridge and Katalidin, (of San- 
ford's Independent Line,) and City of Kichniond from Portland, for 
ELLSWORTH, tonchin"- at CASTINE, DEER ISLE, SEDGWICK, 
BROOKLIN and MT. DESERT, (Indian Point.) 

RETURNING, will leave ELLSWORTH at 6 o^clock A. M., on 
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS, tonchin"; at all the 
above named landing's, and arriving in Beltast in season to connect 
with Sanford's Indej)endent Line for Boston, and Maine Central R. R. 
for Poxtland and Boston. 

Tourists and travellers generally wall find the Scenery on this Route 
the most beautiful in New England, and being inland all the way will 
avoid the unpleasantness of seasickness. Conveyances will connect 
on ai-rival at Indian Point, (Mt. Desert) for Bar Harbor and South 
West Harbor. 

Freight Taken at Reasonable Rates. 

The Steamer ARGO is a GOOD, SUBSTANTIAL Side-Wheel Boat of 
250 tons burthen, with good accommodations for passengers, and in 
lirst-rate order. 

GEO. G. WELLS, Agent at Belfast. 
W. 0. McDonald, Agent at Ellsworth. 



go advki:tiskmknts. 



HA.LE & EMERY, 



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]['J^rHlT'5^A.e..., i ELLSWOETH, Maine. 

ede:n house, 

ASH BROTHERS, Proprietors, 



Post Oflace Address, East Eden, Maine. 



CJivcs a pcrlect View ol' the JYIoiintaini ISaiige, 
and Ocean ami Harbor Scenery. 

Teams and Gruid.cs always in attendance. 

SUPCItlOR CMAIVCE FOIt I«AT1II]¥« and BIDXIVC}. 

O. ASH. I A. II. ASH. 

jr . H . 13 u T^ L ii: na , 

¥iili mni MeTBlHllTAIi 

MUSICAL INSTRUCTOR, 

FRANKLIN, MAINE. 



auvertisehents. 



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CIX.^^. O. IBXJI^IS^II^L'S 






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ELLSWORTH, MA/IVE. 



Eeprescnting the Leading 



Insurance Companies of the Country. 

Fire Policies Insure Asainst Damaies liy LigliMi ! ! 

E^Tlic closest exaiiiinatioii of the liiiancial 
condition oi* the Companies represented at 
this Agency is desired. 



^^Policics promptly \% rittcii upon al8 kinds of In- 
*»Hral)Ie Property, at their Lowest Kates of Premi- 
um, and Country Property made a specialty. 

E. H, DODGE, Branch Office, Tremont, Maine. 



62 ADVERTISEMEKTS. 



ATLAHTiC HOHSE, 

BAR HARBOR, MT. DESERT. 



John H- I>onglass5 JProprietor. 

Post Office Address. East Eden, Me. 



Situated in a Park, and free from dust. Croquet and other Grounds. 
Five minutes walk from Steamboat depot. Superior cliance for Surf 
Bathing, and all the privileges found at the other Hotels. 

James A.. IPecktiam, 
TBEMONT, IME. 

MARVIN BROS. & BARRETT, 

Wholesale manufacturers of 
MARVIN'S BKODORIZIID & PAtATABJLE 

g@B tlTim 01£, 

32 & 33 Bow Street, 
FOUTSMOUTH, N. H. 

1. i;. O. Marvin. 9. P. Bartlett. Il^illiani Marvin, JTr. 

REED & HA.LE, 



91 Middle Street, (3 Casco Bank Building,) 
POUTLAND, : : : : MAINE. 

Thomas B. Rcetl. Clarence Uale. 



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Agent for Leading 



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REVEIVUE STAIflPS FOR SALE. 



Office, - Main Street, 



Ells-worth, IVtaine. 



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64 . ADVEKTISEMEXTS. 



!. J. R. FREEMAN, Proprietor, 
SOUTH wisf HARBOR, ...IVIT. DESERT, Maine. 

Good Sail Boats and Carriages constautly on hand for tlie ac- 
i, commodation of Pleasure Parties. 



S. A. HOLDEN & CO., 

Dealers in 

Hats & Caps, Boots & Shoes, 
Crockery^ Tar, Pit v, Oakum, 

School Books, ^tattaweify. 

^^S^r"'! TE.EM9KT, ME. 



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ISL^N^D HOT BE, 

H. H. CLARK, Propriei M 
South West Harbor, Mt. T^-port, Me. 

^^-TELEGRAPH OFFICE IN THE HOi 

Boats, Carriages & GrTiides alway • \d. 

FRED'K (/. ALLEY, Prop'r 

BAR HARBOR. EAST EOF^, j/laine. 

This is the Central Honse of P-^'* ' ? » 'bor 

Comais a Spleiil Tiei of lie MoHa''iS. Ir, h Ocean. 

Carriages, Guides, Yachts and Boats furnishe'' . y the Froprietor, 

and all the accommodations are first-cl.'.S'N. T'ooius 

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